The temperature on July 16, 1864 was about 18.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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.
May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
June 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
July 30 » American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
August 18 » American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.
Day of marriage January 16, 1886
The temperature on January 16, 1886 was about 2.1 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
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.
September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
Day of death March 19, 1928
The temperature on March 19, 1928 was between 5.1 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
April 14 » The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, reaches Greenly Island, Canada - the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
November 1 » The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replaces the Arabic alphabet with the Latin alphabet.
November 18 » Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
December 13 » George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
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