Genealogy Buddingh-Krabbenbos » Gezina Fokke (1865-????)

Birthday June 20, 1865

• The temperature on June 20, 1865 was about 21.1 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Alexander Winton, Scottish-American race car driver and engineer († 1932)
• 1860 » Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach († 1937)
• 1861 » Frederick Gowland Hopkins, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1865 » George Redmayne Murray, English biologist and physician († 1939)
• 1866 » James Burns, English cricketer († 1957)
• 1869 » Laxmanrao Kirloskar, Indian businessman, founded the Kirloskar Group († 1956)