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Birthday December 16, 1860

• The temperature on December 16, 1860 was about 1.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• In the year 1860: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.3 million citizens.
  • April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
  • June 23 » The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
  • June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
  • September 7 » Italian unification: Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
  • October 17 » First The Open Championship (referred to in North America as the British Open).
  • October 26 » The Expedition of the Thousand ends when Giuseppe Garibaldi presents his conquests to King Victor Emmanuel of Sardinia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Antonio de La Gándara, French painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1863 » George Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet († 1952)
• 1865 » Olavo Bilac, Brazilian journalist and poet († 1918)
• 1866 » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist († 1944)
• 1867 » Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary and humanitarian († 1951)
• 1869 » Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization († 1952)