The temperature on June 5, 1865 was about 19.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
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 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Day of marriage May 18, 1887
The temperature on May 18, 1887 was about 12.3 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Day of death May 14, 1953
The temperature on May 14, 1953 was between 5.5 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
June 19 » Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
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