Olson's Tree » Philip Shelton Sears (1867-1953)

Birthday November 12, 1867

• The temperature on November 12, 1867 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • 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.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » Eduard Müller, Swiss lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Swiss Confederation († 1919)
• 1850 » Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician († 1908)
• 1866 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China († 1925)
• 1872 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer († 1947)
• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)