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Birthday November 29, 1865

• The temperature on November 29, 1865 was about 6.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • April 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate government was declared dissolved at Washington, Georgia.
  • 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

• 1856 » Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, German lawyer and politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany († 1921)
• 1857 » Theodor Escherich, German-Austrian pediatrician and academic († 1911)
• 1861 » Spyridon Samaras, Greek playwright and composer († 1917)
• 1873 » Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1874 » Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1874 » Francis Dodd, Welsh-English painter and academic († 1949)