The temperature on October 20, 1862 was about 12.4 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
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.
February 6 » American Civil War: Forces under the command of Ulysses S. Grant and Andrew H. Foote give the Union its first victory of the war, capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee in the Battle of Fort Henry.
February 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
November 5 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac.
December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
Day of marriage May 9, 1888
The temperature on May 9, 1888 was about 11.8 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
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.
March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
Day of death January 15, 1931
The temperature on January 15, 1931 was between -2.3 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 7 » Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.
March 31 » A Transcontinental & Western Air airliner crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
July 1 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty become the first people to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engined monoplane aircraft.
August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
November 22 » Al-Mina'a SC is founded in Iraq.
December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
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