The temperature on December 14, 1865 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
Day of marriage June 2, 1894
The temperature on June 2, 1894 was about 14.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
Day of death December 22, 1953
The temperature on December 22, 1953 was between -0.6 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
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.
August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
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