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Birthday March 7, 1865

• The temperature on March 7, 1865 was about 3.5 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
  • April 26 » Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, in Virginia.
  • November 10 » Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1850 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1921)
• 1857 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1872 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter († 1944)
• 1873 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress († 1959)
• 1875 » Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1937)
• 1878 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer († 1927)