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Birthday September 9, 1865

• The temperature on September 9, 1865 was about 23.4 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 1 » President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • March 16 » American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • March 25 » American Civil War: In Virginia, Confederate forces temporarily capture Fort Stedman from the Union.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Fred Spofforth, Australian-English cricketer and merchant († 1926)
• 1855 » Houston Stewart Chamberlain, English-German philosopher and author († 1927)
• 1863 » Herbert Henry Ball, English-Canadian journalist and politician († 1943)
• 1868 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author, poet, and critic († 1934)
• 1873 » Max Reinhardt, Austrian-born American theater and film director († 1943)
• 1876 » Frank Chance, American baseball player and manager († 1924)