The temperature on January 31, 1865 was about 1.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
Day of marriage May 10, 1900
The temperature on May 10, 1900 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. Source: KNMI
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
June 20 » Boxer Rebellion: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a 55-day siege of the Legation Quarter in Beijing, China.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Day of death May 18, 1943
The temperature on May 18, 1943 was between 6.4 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 14.3 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 7 » Ioannis Rallis becomes collaborationist Prime Minister of Greece during the Axis Occupation.
June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
August 27 » World War II: Aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe razes to the ground the village of Vorizia in Crete.
October 22 » World War II: In the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the RAF conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
November 16 » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
November 24 » World War II: At the battle of Makin the USSLiscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
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