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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.
  • 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.
  • March 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • 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 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

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)