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Birthday March 18, 1865

• The temperature on March 18, 1865 was about 1.8 °C. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 4 » The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
  • June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
  • July 14 » First ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper and party, four of whom die on the descent.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
  • 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.
  • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine († 1913)
• 1862 » Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter († 1915)
• 1863 » William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York († 1941)
• 1869 » Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1940)
• 1870 » Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician († 1917)
• 1874 » Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher and theologian († 1948)