The temperature on January 10, 1862 was about 8.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
February 16 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
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.
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.
July 1 » The Russian State Library is founded as the Library of the Moscow Public Museum.
September 15 » American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (present-day Harpers Ferry, West Virginia).
December 31 » American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
Day of marriage February 22, 1894
The temperature on February 22, 1894 was about -2.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
Day of death September 19, 1914
The temperature on September 19, 1914 was between 8.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
December 14 » Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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