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Birthday January 31, 1865

• The temperature on January 31, 1865 was about 1.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
  • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » David Emmanuel, Romanian mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1865 » Henri Desgrange, French cyclist and journalist († 1940)
• 1865 » Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader, founded BAPS († 1951)
• 1868 » Theodore William Richards, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1872 » Zane Grey, American author († 1939)
• 1881 » Irving Langmuir, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)