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Birthday January 20, 1865

• The temperature on January 20, 1865 was about 2.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • 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.
  • July 27 » Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Ernest Chausson, French composer († 1899)
• 1856 » Harriot Stanton Blatch, U.S. suffragist and organizer († 1940)
• 1865 » Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress († 1944)
• 1870 » Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian pianist and composer († 1894)
• 1873 » Johannes V. Jensen, Danish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1950)
• 1874 » Steve Bloomer, English footballer and coach († 1938)