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Birthday November 22, 1865

• The temperature on November 22, 1865 was about 11.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 24 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1869 » André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1870 » Harry Graham, Australian cricketer († 1911)
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