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 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Day of marriage May 24, 1890
The temperature on May 24, 1890 was about 21.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of death October 3, 1894
The temperature on October 3, 1894 was about 6.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
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