The temperature on May 10, 1863 was about 18.5 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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.
April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
July 3 » American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.
Day of marriage December 18, 1890
The temperature on December 18, 1890 was about -8.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
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.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
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 June 12, 1934
The temperature on June 12, 1934 was between 8.2 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
December 11 » Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time.
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