Tree Bailey/Walton/Hadley/Koski » George Frederick Grimshaw (1865-1938)

Birthday July 18, 1865

• The temperature on July 18, 1865 was about 20.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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.
  • April 10 » American Civil War: A day after his surrender to Union forces, Confederate General Robert E. Lee addresses his troops for the last time.
  • April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes President upon Lincoln's death.
  • April 26 » American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina. Also the date of Confederate Memorial Day for two states.
  • June 23 » American Civil War: At Fort Towson in the Oklahoma Territory, Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army.
  • October 11 » Hundreds of black men and women march in Jamaica, starting the Morant Bay rebellion.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1853 » Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1861 » Kadambini Ganguly, Indian physician, one of the first Indian women to obtain a degree († 1923)
• 1864 » Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1937)
• 1867 » Margaret Brown, American philanthropist and activist († 1932)
• 1871 » Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (d.1958)
• 1871 » Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer († 1946)