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Birthday April 13, 1865

• The temperature on April 13, 1865 was about 17.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • July 27 » Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
  • July 31 » The first narrow-gauge mainline railway in the world opens at Grandchester, Queensland, Australia.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
  • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1866 » Butch Cassidy, American criminal († 1908)
• 1872 » Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian-Croatian journalist and author († 1945)
• 1872 » John Cameron, Scottish international footballer and manager († 1935)
• 1873 » John W. Davis, American lawyer and politician, 14th United States Solicitor General († 1955)
• 1875 » Ray Lyman Wilbur, American physician, academic, and politician, 31st United States Secretary of the Interior († 1949)