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Birthday August 10, 1865

• The temperature on August 10, 1865 was about 18.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 1 » American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
  • December 24 » Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form The Ku Klux Klan.

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• 1860 » Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande, Indian singer and musicologist († 1936)
• 1865 » Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer, conductor, and educator († 1936)
• 1868 » Hugo Eckener, German pilot and businessman († 1954)
• 1869 » Laurence Binyon, English poet, playwright, and scholar († 1943)
• 1870 » Trần Tế Xương a Vietnamese poet and satirist († 1907)
• 1872 » William Manuel Johnson, American bassist († 1972)