Dreyer Tree » Maria Margaretha Magdelena (Maria Margaretha Magdelena ) Visser (1865-????)

Birthday June 27, 1865

• The temperature on June 27, 1865 was about 14.5 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
  • 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.
  • July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1938)
• 1865 » John Monash, Australian engineer and general († 1931)
• 1869 » Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-Canadian philosopher and activist († 1940)
• 1869 » Hans Spemann, German embryologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1869 » Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist († 1961)
• 1870 » Frank Rattray Lillie, American zoologist and embryologist († 1947)