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Birthday August 12, 1863

• The temperature on August 12, 1863 was about 16.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
  • February 24 » Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
  • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
  • June 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
  • July 26 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.
  • November 19 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Ernestine von Kirchsberg, Austrian painter and educator († 1924)
• 1859 » Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author († 1929)
• 1860 » Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler († 1907)
• 1866 » Henrik Sillem, Dutch target shooter, mountaineer, and jurist († 1907)
• 1866 » Jacinto Benavente, Spanish playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1867 » Edith Hamilton, German-American author and educator († 1963)