The temperature on February 1, 1865 was about 3.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
December 18 » US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
Day of marriage April 26, 1884
The temperature on April 26, 1884 was about 8.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
Day of death May 6, 1952
The temperature on May 6, 1952 was between 7.7 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
April 28 » Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO.
May 3 » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
November 25 » Korean War: After 42 days of fighting, the Battle of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory, American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle".
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