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Birthday November 7, 1865

• The temperature on November 7, 1865 was about 5.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 2 » East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in New Zealand.
  • April 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
  • December 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian academic and activist († 1932)
• 1860 » Jean Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general and engineer († 1936)
• 1860 » Paul Peel, Canadian painter and academic († 1892)
• 1861 » Jeff Milton, American police officer († 1947)
• 1867 » Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1934)
• 1872 » Lucille La Verne, American actress († 1945)