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Birthday November 17, 1863

• The temperature on November 17, 1863 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 3.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
  • May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
  • July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
  • August 15 » The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
  • August 16 » The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
  • November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Hubert Lyautey, French general and politician, French Minister of War († 1934)
• 1857 » Joseph Babinski, French neurologist and academic († 1932)
• 1866 » Voltairine de Cleyre, American author and activist († 1912)
• 1868 » Korbinian Brodmann, German neurologist and academic († 1918)
• 1877 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman († 1943)
• 1878 » Grace Abbott, American social worker († 1939)