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Birthday July 13, 1863

• The temperature on July 13, 1863 was about 14.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • March 30 » Danish prince Wilhelm Georg is chosen as King George of Greece.
  • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • September 7 » American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.
  • November 24 » American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author († 1929)
• 1859 » Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1947)
• 1863 » Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist († 1963)
• 1864 » John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman († 1912)
• 1877 » Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary († 1970)
• 1884 » Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach († 1951)