The temperature on May 20, 1865 was about 23.7 °C. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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.
February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.
Day of marriage September 24, 1890
The temperature on September 24, 1890 was about 18.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Day of death September 11, 1947
The temperature on September 11, 1947 was between 10.1 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Black Dahlia murder: the dismembered corpse of Elizabeth Short was found in Los Angeles.
March 17 » First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
November 17 » American scientists John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain observe the basic principles of the transistor, a key element for the electronics revolution of the 20th century.
November 20 » The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.
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