The temperature on October 9, 1865 was about 15.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
January 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.
Day of marriage November 20, 1895
The temperature on November 20, 1895 was about 2.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death January 9, 1953
The temperature on January 9, 1953 was between -7.1 °C and 2.8 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
Day of burial January 13, 1953
The temperature on January 13, 1953 was between -4.5 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -3 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
February 11 » The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
May 25 » Nuclear weapons testing: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
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