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Birthday June 30, 1865

• The temperature on June 30, 1865 was about 13.2 °C. There was 23 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • February 8 » Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • July 27 » Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1884 » Georges Duhamel, French author and critic († 1966)
• 1889 » Archibald Frazer-Nash, English motor car designer, engineer and founder of Frazer Nash († 1965)
• 1890 » Paul Boffa, Maltese physician and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta († 1962)
• 1891 » Man Mountain Dean, American wrestler and sergeant († 1953)