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Birthday December 29, 1863

• The temperature on December 29, 1863 was about 7.6 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • April 17 » American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
  • May 18 » American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg begins.
  • June 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
  • July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Gettysburg begins.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
  • September 6 » American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet († 1927)
• 1856 » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic († 1894)
• 1859 » Venustiano Carranza, Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico († 1920)
• 1874 » François Brandt, Dutch rower and bishop († 1949)
• 1876 » Lionel Tertis, English violist († 1975)
• 1876 » Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor († 1973)