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Birthday June 19, 1865

• The temperature on June 19, 1865 was about 16.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
  • February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
  • March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
  • November 18 » Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian († 1911)
• 1861 » Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist († 1927)
• 1861 » Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal († 1928)
• 1861 » José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet († 1896)
• 1865 » May Whitty, English actress († 1948)
• 1871 » Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician († 1932)