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Birthday February 16, 1865

• The temperature on February 16, 1865 was about -0.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • April 13 » American Civil War: Raleigh, North Carolina is occupied by Union Forces.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Palmito Ranch: The first day of the last major land action to take place during the Civil War, resulting in a Confederate victory.
  • December 18 » US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Ossian Everett Mills, American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia († 1920)
• 1866 » Billy Hamilton, American baseball player and manager († 1940)
• 1868 » Edward S. Curtis, American ethnologist and photographer († 1952)
• 1873 » Radoje Domanović, Serbian journalist and author († 1908)
• 1876 » G. M. Trevelyan, English historian and academic († 1962)
• 1878 » Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator († 1951)