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Birthday June 25, 1865

• The temperature on June 25, 1865 was about 18.8 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • 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 » Georges Courteline, French author and playwright († 1929)
• 1860 » Gustave Charpentier, French composer and conductor († 1956)
• 1863 » Émile Francqui, Belgian soldier and diplomat († 1935)
• 1864 » Walther Nernst, German chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1866 » Eloísa Díaz, Chilean doctor and Chile's first female physician († 1950)
• 1874 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer († 1944)