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Birthday October 9, 1865

• The temperature on October 9, 1865 was about 15.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • 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.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • June 11 » The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
  • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
  • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist († 1935)
• 1859 » Alfred Dreyfus, French colonel († 1935)
• 1863 » Edward Bok, Dutch-American journalist and author († 1930)
• 1864 » Reginald Dyer, British brigadier general († 1927)
• 1871 » Georges Gauthier, Canadian archbishop († 1940)
• 1873 » Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator († 1944)