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Birthday January 29, 1867

• The temperature on January 29, 1867 was about 8.1 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
  • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
  • November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Florida Ruffin Ridley, African-American civil rights activist, teacher, editor, and writer († 1943)
• 1862 » Frederick Delius, English composer († 1934)
• 1866 » Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter († 1944)
• 1866 » Romain Rolland, French historian, author, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1867 » Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish journalist and author († 1928)
• 1870 » Süleyman Nazif, Turkish poet and civil servant († 1927)