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Birthday May 6, 1865

• The temperature on May 6, 1865 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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.
  • 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 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
  • 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.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Motilal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, President of the Indian National Congress († 1931)
• 1868 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author († 1927)
• 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)