The temperature on May 20, 1862 was about 22.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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.
May 13 » The USSPlanter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship.
July 16 » American Civil War: David Farragut is promoted to rear admiral, becoming the first officer in United States Navy to hold an admiral rank.
September 8 » Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
October 11 » American Civil War: Confederate troops conduct a raid on Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.
November 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
Day of marriage October 25, 1887
The temperature on October 25, 1887 was about 3.8 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 42 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Day of death December 23, 1949
The temperature on December 23, 1949 was between 1.7 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
July 20 » The Israel–Syria Mixed Armistice Commission brokers the last of four ceasefire agreements to end the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
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