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Birthday April 30, 1865

• The temperature on April 30, 1865 was about 7.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • 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.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist and eugenicist († 1940)
• 1865 » Max Nettlau, German historian and academic († 1944)
• 1866 » Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel, American pioneer dentist († 1936)
• 1869 » Hans Poelzig, German architect, designed the IG Farben Building and Großes Schauspielhaus († 1936)
• 1870 » Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter († 1944)
• 1870 » Franz Lehár, Hungarian composer († 1948)