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Day of marriage May 8, 1861

• The temperature on May 8, 1861 was about 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 10 » Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
  • March 17 » The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
  • April 29 » American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
  • August 5 » American Civil War: In order to help pay for the war effort, the United States government levies the first income tax as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US$800; rescinded in 1872).
  • October 25 » The Toronto Stock Exchange is created.
  • November 20 » American Civil War: A secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

Day of death April 8, 1919

• The temperature on April 8, 1919 was between 2.5 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1919: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.7 million citizens.
  • May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
  • June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
  • June 28 » The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
  • November 28 » Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
  • December 23 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
  • December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1906 » Auguste Deter, German woman, first person diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (b. 1850)
• 1919 » Loránd Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education (b. 1848)
• 1920 » Charles Griffes, American pianist and composer (b. 1884)
• 1931 » Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
• 1936 » Božena Benešová, Czech poet and novelist (b. 1873)
• 1936 » Róbert Bárány, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)