The temperature on January 26, 1865 was about -2.4 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
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.
July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
Day of death April 29, 1941
The temperature on April 29, 1941 was between 1.5 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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.
March 17 » In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
May 13 » World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting against German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance.
July 31 » The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
September 20 » The Holocaust in Lithuania: Lithuanian Nazis and local police murder 403 Jews in Nemenčinė.
December 24 » World War II: Benghazi is conquered by the British Eighth Army.
December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
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