The temperature on November 26, 1861 was about 4.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
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).
March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
March 11 » American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
March 30 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Sir William Crookes announces his discovery of thallium.
April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
November 7 » The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
Day of marriage February 6, 1891
The temperature on February 6, 1891 was about 3.4 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
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.
March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
Day of death April 4, 1937
The temperature on April 4, 1937 was between 8.0 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
July 6 » Spanish Civil War: Battle of Brunete: The battle begins with Spanish Republican troops going on the offensive against the Nationalists to relieve pressure on Madrid.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
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