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.
May 1 » American Civil War: The Union Army completes its capture of New Orleans.
May 31 » American Civil War: Peninsula Campaign: Confederate forces under Joseph E. Johnston and G.W. Smith engage Union forces under George B. McClellan outside Richmond, Virginia.
August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
September 17 » American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
October 8 » American Civil War: The Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville.
November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Day of death February 18, 1947
The temperature on February 18, 1947 was between -10.3 °C and -3 °C and averaged -6.9 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
August 7 » Thor Heyerdahl's balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
December 23 » The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.
Day of burial February 22, 1947
The temperature on February 22, 1947 was between -7.4 °C and -5 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
June 23 » The United States Senate follows the United States House of Representatives in overriding U.S. President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.
June 24 » Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington, leading to the coining of the phrase "flying saucer".
August 4 » The Supreme Court of Japan is established.
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