The temperature on December 12, 1864 was about 1.5 °C. The air pressure was 3.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 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.
May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
September 7 » American Civil War: Atlanta is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
Day of marriage February 4, 1892
The temperature on February 4, 1892 was about 2.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
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 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
September 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of death August 10, 1911
The temperature on August 10, 1911 was between 18.1 °C and 33.0 °C and averaged 24.9 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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