Genealogy Deboysere » Zuster Placide Eugenie Rammant (1865-1956)

Birthday February 6, 1865

• The temperature on February 6, 1865 was about -1.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
  • July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic († 1953)
• 1864 » John Henry Mackay, Scottish-German philosopher and author († 1933)
• 1866 » Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer († 1945)
• 1872 » Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge († 1940)
• 1874 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math († 1937)
• 1875 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general († 1915)