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Birthday January 1, 1865

• The temperature on January 1, 1865 was about -0.4 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Michael Joseph Owens, American inventor († 1923)
• 1860 » Michele Lega, Italian cardinal († 1935)
• 1863 » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee († 1937)
• 1864 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator († 1946)
• 1864 » Qi Baishi, Chinese painter († 1957)
• 1867 » Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and scholar († 1949)