Noordwijkerhout Van Toen (NoVaTo) » Geertruida Johanna Maria Wezelenburg (1867-????)

Birthday March 18, 1867

• The temperature on March 18, 1867 was about 0.9 °C. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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.
  • January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
  • February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
  • 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.
  • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
  • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine († 1913)
• 1862 » Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter († 1915)
• 1863 » William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York († 1941)
• 1869 » Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1940)
• 1870 » Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician († 1917)
• 1874 » Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher and theologian († 1948)