The temperature on October 20, 1861 was about 13.4 °C. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
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 3 » American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
February 4 » American Civil War: In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America.
February 10 » Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
February 11 » American Civil War: The United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
July 16 » American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
July 25 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Crittenden–Johnson Resolution, stating that the war is being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
Day of marriage April 30, 1891
The temperature on April 30, 1891 was about 15.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
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.
March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
Day of death August 22, 1939
The temperature on August 22, 1939 was between 13.3 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
March 28 » Spanish Civil War: Generalissimo Francisco Franco conquers Madrid after a three-year siege.
April 10 » Alcoholics Anonymous, A.A.'s "Big Book", is first published.
August 2 » Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.
September 9 » World War II: The Battle of Hel begins, the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland.
September 10 » World War II: The submarine HMSOxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMSTriton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
September 30 » NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game.
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