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Birthday July 13, 1865

• The temperature on July 13, 1865 was about 17.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • April 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
  • 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

• 1858 » Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author († 1929)
• 1859 » Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1947)
• 1863 » Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist († 1963)
• 1864 » John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman († 1912)
• 1877 » Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary († 1970)
• 1884 » Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach († 1951)