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Birthday October 30, 1865

• The temperature on October 30, 1865 was about 8.4 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 14 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln died the next day.
  • June 11 » The Naval Battle of the Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and the Brazilian Navy on the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of the Triple Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • November 26 » Battle of Papudo: A Spanish navy schooner is defeated by a Chilean corvette north of Valparaíso, Chile.
  • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist († 1904)
• 1861 » Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter († 1929)
• 1871 » Buck Freeman, American baseball player († 1949)
• 1871 » Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher († 1945)
• 1873 » Francisco I. Madero, Mexican businessman and politician, 33rd President of Mexico († 1913)
• 1877 » Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia († 1941)