The temperature on September 6, 1865 was about 23.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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.
April 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.
October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
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 September 30, 1911
The temperature on September 30, 1911 was between 4.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
Day of death October 20, 1953
The temperature on October 20, 1953 was between 12.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
July 17 » The largest number of United States midshipman casualties in a single event results from an aircraft crash in Florida, killing 44.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
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