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Birthday August 11, 1865

• The temperature on August 11, 1865 was about 21.7 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » John Hodges, Australian cricketer († 1933)
• 1858 » Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1930)
• 1860 » Ottó Bláthy, Hungarian engineer and chess player († 1939)
• 1870 » Tom Richardson, English cricketer († 1912)
• 1874 » Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg († 1953)
• 1877 » Adolph M. Christianson, American lawyer and judge († 1954)