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Birthday May 2, 1865

• The temperature on May 2, 1865 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • 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. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Jerome K. Jerome, English author and playwright († 1927)
• 1860 » John Scott Haldane, Scottish physiologist, physician, and academic († 1936)
• 1860 » Theodor Herzl, Austro-Hungarian Zionist philosopher, journalist and author († 1904)
• 1865 » Clyde Fitch, American playwright († 1909)
• 1867 » Giuseppe Morello, Italian-American mobster († 1930)
• 1873 » Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Lithuanian poet, critic, and translator († 1944)