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Birthday November 11, 1865

• The temperature on November 11, 1865 was about 8.3 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • 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

• 1863 » Paul Signac, French painter and educator († 1935)
• 1864 » Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1921)
• 1866 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician († 1956)
• 1867 » Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi († 1901)
• 1868 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic († 1940)
• 1869 » Victor Emmanuel III of Italy († 1947)