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Birthday June 13, 1865

• The temperature on June 13, 1865 was about 18.6 °C. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • 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.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, English fashion designer († 1935)
• 1864 » Dwight B. Waldo, American historian and academic († 1939)
• 1864 » Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and academic († 1922)
• 1865 » Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer († 1932)
• 1865 » W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1939)
• 1868 » Wallace Clement Sabine, American physicist and academic († 1919)