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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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

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)