Family tree Van Pelt en Sluijter » Philip Bekkers (1865-????)

Birthday March 25, 1865

• The temperature on March 25, 1865 was about 3.1 °C. The air pressure was 6.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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 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 4 » American Civil War: A day after Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln visits the Confederate capital.
  • 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 27 » The Sultana explodes and sinks in the United States' worst maritime disaster.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • December 1 » Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Simon Flexner, American physician and academic († 1946)
• 1867 » Arturo Toscanini, Italian-American cellist and conductor († 1957)
• 1867 » Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore († 1941)
• 1868 » Bill Lockwood, English cricketer († 1932)
• 1871 » Louis Perrée, French fencer († 1924)
• 1872 » Horatio Nelson Jackson, American race car driver and physician († 1955)