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Birthday April 15, 1863

• The temperature on April 15, 1863 was about 10.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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.
  • January 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
  • February 7 » HMSOrpheus sinks off the coast of Auckland, New Zealand, killing 189.
  • February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
  • April 30 » A 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fights a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico.
  • May 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jackson takes place.
  • October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Jean Moréas, Greek poet and critic († 1910)
• 1858 » Émile Durkheim, French sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher († 1917)
• 1861 » Bliss Carman, Canadian-British poet and playwright († 1929)
• 1863 » Ida Freund, Austrian-born chemist and educator († 1914)
• 1874 » George Harrison Shull, American botanist and geneticist († 1954)
• 1874 » Johannes Stark, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)