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Birthday April 23, 1862

• The temperature on April 23, 1862 was about 11.8 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch (47cm) telescope now located at Northwestern University.
  • February 16 » American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
  • May 15 » President Abraham Lincoln signs a bill into law creating the United States Bureau of Agriculture. It is later renamed the United States Department of Agriculture.
  • July 4 » Lewis Carroll tells Alice Liddell a story that would grow into Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequels.
  • August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  • December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer († 1919)
• 1858 » Max Planck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1860 » Justinian Oxenham, Australian public servant († 1932)
• 1861 » Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt († 1936)
• 1861 » John Peltz, American baseball player and manager († 1906)
• 1865 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general († 1943)