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Day of marriage July 6, 1864

• The temperature on July 6, 1864 was about 17.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• In the year 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 26 » Montana is organized as a United States territory.
  • August 22 » Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
  • 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 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
  • September 29 » The Treaty of Lisbon defines the boundaries between Spain and Portugal and abolishes the Couto Misto microstate.
  • November 30 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.

Day of death August 25, 1914

• The temperature on August 25, 1914 was between 13.1 °C and 24.3 °C and averaged 18.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • April 21 » Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
  • July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
  • August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
  • August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
  • September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
  • November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1904 » Henri Fantin-Latour, French painter and lithographer (b. 1836)
• 1908 » Henri Becquerel, French physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
• 1916 » Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1851)
• 1921 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic (b. 1886)
• 1924 » Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general and politician (b. 1818)
• 1924 » Velma Caldwell Melville, American editor, and writer of prose and poetry (b. 1858)