The temperature on November 3, 1863 was about 7.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 1 » American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
January 26 » American Civil War: Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from the Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent.
April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
May 21 » American Civil War: The Union Army succeeds in closing off the last escape route from Port Hudson, Louisiana, in preparation for the coming siege.
July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
Day of marriage August 24, 1904
The temperature on August 24, 1904 was between 8.8 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death August 30, 1911
The temperature on August 30, 1911 was between 8.1 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
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