The Brown Tree » Mary Ann SWAIN (1865-1908)

Birthday October 17, 1865

• The temperature on October 17, 1865 was about 11.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Confederate District of the Gulf surrenders about 4,000 men at Citronelle, Alabama.
  • May 17 » The International Telegraph Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established in Paris.
  • July 7 » Four conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln are hanged.
  • 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 2 » Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks
  • December 17 » First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Childe Hassam, American painter and illustrator († 1935)
• 1860 » Henry Campbell Black, founder of Black's Law Dictionary († 1927)
• 1864 » Elinor Glyn, English author, screenwriter, and producer († 1943)
• 1865 » James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior († 1950)
• 1867 » Josep Puig i Cadafalch, Catalan architect who designed the Casa Martí († 1956)
• 1871 » Segundo de Chomón, Spanish cinematographer, director, and screenwriter (d.1929)