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Birthday December 30, 1865

• The temperature on December 30, 1865 was about 2.8 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1929)
• 1857 » Sylvio Lazzari, French-Austrian composer († 1944)
• 1865 » Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1869 » Ōzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna († 1918)
• 1869 » Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author († 1944)
• 1873 » Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York († 1944)