The temperature on June 15, 1862 was about 18.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
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.
March 7 » American Civil War: Union forces engage Confederate troops at the Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
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.
July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
December 26 » The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, where 38 Native Americans died.
Day of marriage October 19, 1901
The temperature on October 19, 1901 was between 8.0 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (18%). Source: KNMI
January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
February 15 » The association football club Alianza Lima is founded in Lima, Peru, under the name Sport Alianza.
August 14 » The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of death April 10, 1936
The average temperature on April 10, 1936 was 6.3 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 27 » The United Auto Workers (UAW) gains autonomy from the American Federation of Labor.
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
August 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Regional Defence Council of Aragon is dissolved by the Spanish Republic.
November 2 » The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
November 23 » Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
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