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Birthday May 25, 1865

• The temperature on May 25, 1865 was about 18.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • 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 9 » American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia (26,765 troops) to Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the war.
  • April 20 » Astronomer Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L'Immaculata Concezion.
  • May 25 » In Mobile, Alabama, around 300 people are killed when an ordnance depot explodes.
  • November 11 » Treaty of Sinchula is signed whereby Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic († 1944)
• 1865 » John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1865 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1867 » Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter († 1950)
• 1869 » Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator († 1936)
• 1869 » Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic († 1918)