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Day of marriage July 12, 1862

• The temperature on July 12, 1862 was about 11.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
  • June 9 » American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
  • September 15 » American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
  • September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
  • September 22 » A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released by Abraham Lincoln.
  • December 17 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.

Day of death July 13, 1911

• The temperature on July 13, 1911 was between 12.2 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
  • January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
  • May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
  • July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
  • August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
  • December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » August Kekulé, German chemist and academic (b. 1829)
• 1907 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter and jurist (b. 1866)
• 1911 » Allan McLean, Scottish-Australian politician, 19th Premier of Victoria (b. 1840)
• 1921 » Gabriel Lippmann, Luxembourger physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845)
• 1922 » Martin Dies Sr., American journalist and politician (b. 1870)
• 1927 » Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, Turkish architect and academic, designed the Tayyare Apartments (b. 1870)