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Birthday October 27, 1863

• The temperature on October 27, 1863 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • September 6 » American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
  • 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.
  • November 26 » United States President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November. Following the Franksgiving controversy from 1939 to 1941, it has been observed on the fourth Thursday in 1942 and subsequent years.

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• 1854 » William Alexander Smith, Scottish religious leader, founded the Boys' Brigade († 1914)
• 1858 » Elliott Lewis, Australian politician, 19th Premier of Tasmania († 1935)
• 1858 » Saitō Makoto, Japanese admiral and politician, 30th Prime Minister of Japan († 1936)
• 1858 » Theodore Roosevelt, American colonel and politician, 26th President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1865 » Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic († 1958)
• 1868 » William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland († 1928)