The temperature on November 17, 1865 was about 10.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
Day of marriage September 19, 1902
The temperature on September 19, 1902 was between 5.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (16%). Source: KNMI
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
October 24 » Guatemala's Santa María Volcano begins to erupt, becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
Day of death September 15, 1943
The temperature on September 15, 1943 was between 12.3 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 17 » World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
July 11 » Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat Ukraine (Volhynia) peak.
July 25 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and is replaced by Pietro Badoglio.
September 6 » The Monterrey Institute of Technology is founded in Monterrey, Mexico as one of the largest and most influential private universities in Latin America.
October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
November 22 » Lebanon gains independence from France.
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