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Birthday June 21, 1865

• The temperature on June 21, 1865 was about 17.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 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 20 » End of the Uruguayan War, with a peace agreement between President Tomás Villalba and rebel leader Venancio Flores, setting the scene for the destructive War of the Triple Alliance.
  • March 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
  • 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 27 » The New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and author († 1943)
• 1863 » Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1864 » Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss historian and critic († 1945)
• 1867 » Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator († 1938)
• 1867 » William Brede Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion († 1953)
• 1868 » Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist († 1946)