De bomen van Kreijkes » Hendrika Johanna Keijzer (1865-????)

Birthday September 30, 1865

• The temperature on September 30, 1865 was about 11.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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• 1852 » Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator († 1924)
• 1861 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company († 1932)
• 1863 » Reinhard Scheer, German admiral († 1928)
• 1870 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1942)
• 1870 » Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1882 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic († 1945)