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Birthday January 19, 1863

• The temperature on January 19, 1863 was about 6.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 74 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
  • May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
  • June 14 » Second Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson during the American Civil War.
  • July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
  • November 16 » American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee: Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1851 » Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1922)
• 1852 » Thomas Price, Welsh-Australian politician, 24th Premier of South Australia († 1909)
• 1863 » Werner Sombart, German economist and sociologist († 1941)
• 1866 » Harry Davenport, American stage and film actor († 1949)
• 1871 » Dame Gruev, Bulgarian educator and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization († 1906)
• 1874 » Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna († 1922)