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Birthday July 19, 1866

• The temperature on July 19, 1866 was about 16.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 Netherlands , there was from February 10, 1866 to June 1, 1866 the cabinet Fransen van de Putte, with I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1866: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 1 » The Memphis Race Riots begin. In three days time, 46 blacks and two whites were killed. Reports of the atrocities influenced passage of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  • May 5 » Memorial Day first celebrated in United States at Waterloo, New York.
  • June 2 » The Fenians defeat Canadian forces at Ridgeway and Fort Erie, but the raids end soon after.
  • July 25 » The United States Congress passes legislation authorizing the rank of General of the Army. Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant becomes the first to be promoted to this rank.
  • August 20 » President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
  • September 22 » The Battle of Curupayty is Paraguay's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her parents in 1892 († 1927)
• 1864 » Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer († 1920)
• 1865 » Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic († 1939)
• 1865 » Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer († 1933)
• 1868 » Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator († 1944)
• 1869 » Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport († 1927)