The temperature on August 16, 1865 was about 16.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Day of marriage March 8, 1900
The temperature on March 8, 1900 was about 1.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
Day of death October 31, 1944
The temperature on October 31, 1944 was between 6.0 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 20 » World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
July 6 » The Hartford circus fire, one of America's worst fire disasters, kills approximately 168 people and injures over 700 in Hartford, Connecticut.
September 14 » World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
September 28 » World War II: Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia.
November 1 » World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren.
December 18 » World War II: Seventy-seven B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
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