The temperature on October 14, 1863 was about 14.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
March 30 » Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
August 4 » Matica slovenská, Slovakia's public-law cultural and scientific institution focusing on topics around the Slovak nation, is established in Martin.
October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
October 30 » Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes.
November 27 » American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Day of marriage November 20, 1886
The temperature on November 20, 1886 was about 6.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
Day of death February 14, 1954
The temperature on February 14, 1954 was between 1.8 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 5.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
September 26 » The Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, Japan, killing 1,172.
October 18 » Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
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