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Birthday June 7, 1865

• The temperature on June 7, 1865 was about 18.0 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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.
  • February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
  • April 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • 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 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 1 » The Empire of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay sign the Treaty of the Triple Alliance.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1862 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1863 » Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1868 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect († 1928)
• 1877 » Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer († 1960)