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Birthday October 12, 1865

• The temperature on October 12, 1865 was about 14.6 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
  • April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
  • 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 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • May 9 » American Civil War: President Andrew Johnson issues a proclamation ending belligerent rights of the rebels and enjoining foreign nations to intern or expel Confederate ships.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Elmer Ambrose Sperry, American engineer and businessman, co-invented the gyrocompass († 1930)
• 1864 » Kamini Roy, British India's first female graduate, Bengali poet, social activist, and feminist writer († 1933)
• 1865 » Arthur Harden, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1866 » Ramsay MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1937)
• 1868 » August Horch, German engineer and businessman, founded Audi († 1951)
• 1868 » Mariano Trías, Filipino general and politician, 1st Vice President of the Philippines († 1914)