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Birthday April 29, 1865

• The temperature on April 29, 1865 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%. 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 2 » Uruguayan War: The Siege of Paysandú ends as the Brazilians and Coloradans capture Paysandú, Uruguay.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • 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.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Georgia Hopley, American journalist, temperance advocate, and the first woman prohibition agent († 1944)
• 1863 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek journalist and poet († 1933)
• 1863 » Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Austrian nun and missionary († 1922)
• 1863 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation († 1951)
• 1872 » Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic († 1952)
• 1872 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and lawyer († 1930)