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Birthday March 8, 1865

• The temperature on March 8, 1865 was about 2.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 15 » American Civil War: Fort Fisher in North Carolina falls to the Union, thus cutting off the last major seaport of the Confederacy.
  • March 3 » Opening of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • May 10 » American Civil War: In Kentucky, Union soldiers ambush and mortally wound Confederate raider William Quantrill, who lingers until his death on June 6.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • December 5 » Chincha Islands War: Peru allies with Chile against Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster († 1917)
• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)