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Birthday August 12, 1865

• The temperature on August 12, 1865 was about 21.2 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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.
  • January 31 » American Civil War: Confederate General Robert E. Lee becomes general-in-chief.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • 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 New York State Senate creates Cornell University as the state's land grant institution.
  • June 19 » Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
  • June 28 » The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)
• 1870 » Henry Reuterdahl, Swedish-American artist († 1925)