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Day of marriage May 17, 1862

• The temperature on May 17, 1862 was about 19.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 22 » Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
  • June 7 » The United States and the United Kingdom agree in the Lyons–Seward Treaty to suppress the African slave trade.
  • July 16 » American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
  • August 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Baton Rouge: Along the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Confederate troops attempt to take the city, but are driven back by fire from Union gunboats.
  • September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
  • November 5 » American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, 303 Dakota warriors are found guilty of rape and murder of whites and are sentenced to hang. 38 are ultimately executed and the others reprieved.

Day of death April 2, 1911

• The temperature on April 2, 1911 was between 4.8 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1911: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
  • August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
  • September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
  • 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.
  • November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
  • December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Achille Vianelli, Italian painter and academic (b. 1803)
• 1896 » Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (b. 1852)
• 1914 » Paul Heyse, German author, poet, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
• 1917 » Bryn Lewis, Welsh international rugby player (b.1891)
• 1923 » Topal Osman, Turkish colonel (b. 1883)
• 1928 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)