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 5 » Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
July 12 » The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
July 15 » The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped to reverse Rebel fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
Day of marriage September 16, 1892
The temperature on September 16, 1892 was about 16.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
Day of death January 8, 1937
The temperature on January 8, 1937 was between -1.0 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
August 2 » The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
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