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Day of marriage May 13, 1865

• The temperature on May 13, 1865 was about 17.3 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, abolishing slavery and submits it to the states for ratification.
  • March 29 » American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
  • April 2 » American Civil War: Defeat at the Third Battle of Petersburg forces the Army of Northern Virginia and the Confederate government to abandon Richmond, Virginia.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • August 12 » Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs 1st antiseptic surgery.
  • 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.

Day of death July 27, 1914

• The temperature on July 27, 1914 was between 9.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
  • May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
  • July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
  • August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
  • August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
  • August 25 » World War I: Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Charles Fryatt, English captain (b. 1872)
• 1916 » William Jonas, English footballer († 1890)
• 1917 » Emil Theodor Kocher, Swiss physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1841)
• 1921 » Myrddin Fardd, Welsh writer and antiquarian scholar (b. 1836)
• 1924 » Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1866)
• 1931 » Auguste Forel, Swiss neuroanatomist and psychiatrist (b. 1848)