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Day of marriage March 22, 1862

• The temperature on March 22, 1862 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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.
• In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
  • August 17 » American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River.
  • September 2 » American Civil War: United States President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George B. McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Second Battle of Bull Run.
  • September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
  • September 22 » A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
  • November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.

Day of death August 3, 1929

• The temperature on August 3, 1929 was between 4.1 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1929: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
  • April 8 » Indian independence movement: At the Delhi Central Assembly, Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw handouts and bombs to court arrest.
  • June 7 » The Lateran Treaty is ratified, bringing Vatican City into existence.
  • June 21 » An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.
  • October 7 » Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1922 » Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1851)
• 1924 » Joseph Conrad, Polish-born British novelist (b. 1857)
• 1925 » William Bruce, Australian cricketer (b. 1864)
• 1929 » Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851)
• 1929 » Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (b. 1857)
• 1936 » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (b. 1873)