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Birthday March 7, 1867

• The temperature on March 7, 1867 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • December 13 » A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1850 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1921)
• 1857 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1872 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter († 1944)
• 1873 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress († 1959)
• 1875 » Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor († 1937)
• 1878 » Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter and stage designer († 1927)