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Birthday February 2, 1863

• The temperature on February 2, 1863 was about 6.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
  • February 7 » HMSOrpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
  • April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
  • June 20 » American Civil War: West Virginia is admitted as the 35th U.S. state.
  • July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
  • August 21 » Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Jan Drozdowski, Polish pianist and music teacher († 1918)
• 1860 » Curtis Guild, Jr., American journalist and politician, 43rd Governor of Massachusetts († 1915)
• 1861 » Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum († 1949)
• 1862 » Émile Coste, French fencer († 1927)
• 1862 » Cornelius McKane, American physician, educator, and hospital founder († 1912)
• 1866 » Enrique Simonet, Spanish painter and academic († 1927)