Family tree Drenth » Johannes Petrus Wilhelm Muller (1865-????)

Birthday February 28, 1865

• The temperature on February 28, 1865 was about 6.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
  • December 18 » US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1851 » Samuel W. McCall, American journalist and politician, 47th Governor of Massachusetts († 1923)
• 1858 » Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director († 1941)
• 1865 » Wilfred Grenfell, English physician and missionary († 1940)
• 1866 » Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright († 1949)
• 1873 » William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor († 1912)
• 1878 » Pierre Fatou, French mathematician and astronomer († 1929)