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Birthday June 29, 1865

• The temperature on June 29, 1865 was about 20.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 36%. 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 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • 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.
  • June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » George Washington Goethals, American general and engineer, co-designed the Panama Canal († 1928)
• 1861 » William James Mayo, American physician and surgeon, co-founded the Mayo Clinic († 1939)
• 1863 » Wilbert Robinson, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1934)
• 1866 » Bartholomeus Roodenburch, Dutch swimmer († 1939)
• 1868 » George Ellery Hale, American astronomer and journalist († 1938)
• 1870 » Joseph Carl Breil, American tenor, composer, and director († 1926)