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Birthday December 21, 1865

• The temperature on December 21, 1865 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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.
• In the year 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
  • January 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
  • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Gustave Kahn, French poet and critic († 1936)
• 1866 » Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and political activist († 1953)
• 1868 » George W. Fuller, American chemist and engineer († 1934)
• 1872 » Albert Payson Terhune, American journalist and author († 1942)
• 1872 » Lorenzo Perosi, Italian priest and composer († 1956)
• 1872 » Trevor Kincaid, Canadian-American zoologist and academic († 1970)