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Birthday July 3, 1865

• The temperature on July 3, 1865 was about 18.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • April 14 » U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family are attacked at home by Lewis Powell.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • 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.
  • May 26 » American Civil War: The Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith, commander of the Confederate Trans-Mississippi division, is the last full general of the Confederate Army to surrender, at Galveston, Texas.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author († 1935)
• 1866 » Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter († 1906)
• 1869 » Svend Kornbeck, Danish actor († 1933)
• 1870 » R. B. Bennett, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Canada († 1947)
• 1871 » William Henry Davies, Welsh poet and writer (d.1940)
• 1874 » Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor († 1928)