Delcour genealogie » Hendrik Anthonie de MUNNIK (1865-????)

Birthday February 11, 1865

• The temperature on February 11, 1865 was about -9.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • February 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: Nathan Bedford Forrest surrenders his forces at Gainesville, Alabama.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Rachilde, French author and playwright († 1953)
• 1863 » John F. Fitzgerald, American politician; Mayor of Boston († 1950)
• 1864 » Louis Bouveault, French chemist († 1909)
• 1869 » Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and author († 1945)
• 1869 » Helene Kröller-Müller, German-Dutch art collector and philanthropist, founded the Kröller-Müller Museum († 1939)
• 1874 » Elsa Beskow, Swedish author and illustrator († 1953)