The temperature on May 13, 1863 was about 12.0 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 11 » American Civil War: CSSAlabama encounters and sinks the USSHatteras off Galveston Lighthouse in Texas.
January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
April 2 » American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
May 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Raymond: Two divisions of James B. McPherson's XVII Corps turn the left wing of Confederate General John C. Pemberton's defensive line on Fourteen Mile Creek, opening up the interior of Mississippi to the Union Army during the Vicksburg Campaign.
July 19 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid: At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River.
Day of marriage February 20, 1890
The temperature on February 20, 1890 was about -3.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
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.
Day of death August 17, 1927
The temperature on August 17, 1927 was between 9.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
May 1 » The Union Labor Life Insurance Company is founded by the American Federation of Labor.
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
July 10 » Kevin O'Higgins TD, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State is assassinated by the IRA.
December 8 » The Brookings Institution, one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
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