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Birthday December 15, 1867

• The temperature on December 15, 1867 was about 7.5 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Abner Powell, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1860 » Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1904)
• 1861 » Charles Duryea, American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company († 1938)
• 1861 » Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland († 1944)
• 1863 » Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and engineer († 1935)
• 1869 » Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist and academic († 1946)