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Birthday February 9, 1867

• The temperature on February 9, 1867 was about 9.3 °C. The air pressure was 22 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
  • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
  • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Anthony Hope, English author and playwright († 1933)
• 1864 » Miina Härma, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor († 1941)
• 1865 » Erich von Drygalski, German geographer and geophysicist († 1949)
• 1865 » Mrs. Patrick Campbell, English-French actress († 1940)
• 1867 » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet († 1916)
• 1871 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician († 1910)