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Birthday January 18, 1865

• The temperature on January 18, 1865 was about 3.4 °C. The airpressure was 74 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 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • February 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • December 4 » North Carolina ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker († 1900)
• 1854 » Thomas A. Watson, American assistant to Alexander Graham Bell († 1934)
• 1856 » Daniel Hale Williams, American surgeon and cardiologist († 1931)
• 1867 » Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan poet, journalist, and diplomat († 1916)
• 1868 » Kantarō Suzuki, Japanese admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan († 1948)
• 1877 » Sam Zemurray, Russian-American businessman, founded the Cuyamel Fruit Company († 1961)