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Birthday December 9, 1865

• The temperature on December 9, 1865 was about -0.8 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • April 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Sailor's Creek: Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights and loses its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia during the Appomattox Campaign.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: Mobile, Alabama, falls to the Union Army.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.
  • 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

• 1861 » Hélène Smith, French psychic and occultist († 1929)
• 1867 » Gregorios Xenopoulos, Greek journalist and author († 1951)
• 1868 » Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1934)
• 1870 » Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 († 1932)
• 1870 » Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician and missionary († 1960)
• 1871 » Joe Kelley, American baseball player and manager († 1943)