Family tree De Backer - Evers » Jean Mathurin Heno (1865-????)

Birthday January 21, 1865

• The temperature on January 21, 1865 was about -0.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Israel Zangwill, British author († 1926)
• 1865 » Heinrich Albers-Schonberg, German gynecologist and radiologist († 1921)
• 1867 » Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author († 1921)
• 1867 » Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general († 1965)
• 1868 » Felix Hoffmann, German chemist († 1946)
• 1869 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic († 1916)