From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
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).
January 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
February 9 » American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.
February 10 » Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
September 17 » Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of Pavón.
November 20 » American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.
December 10 » Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
Day of marriage May 1, 1902
The temperature on May 1, 1902 was between 3.9 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (48%). Source: KNMI
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
April 14 » James Cash Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
June 28 » The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Day of death February 24, 1937
The temperature on February 24, 1937 was between -0.6 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
October 9 » Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.
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