Derks Vroomans Project » Jeanna Baptista Rozalie Susan Gossiaux (1865-????)

Birthday March 27, 1865

• The temperature on March 27, 1865 was about 0.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Arturo Berutti, Argentinian composer († 1938)
• 1862 » Jelena Dimitrijević, Serbian short story writer, novelist, poet, traveller, social worker, feminist and polyglot († 1945)
• 1863 » Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited († 1933)
• 1866 » John Allan, Australian politician, 29th Premier of Victoria († 1936)
• 1868 » Patty Hill, American songwriter and educator († 1946)
• 1869 » James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State († 1938)