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Birthday March 16, 1863

• The temperature on March 16, 1863 was about 5.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 19 » The SSGeorgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
  • May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
  • July 7 » The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
  • September 8 » American Civil War: In the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, a small Confederate force thwarts a Union invasion of Texas.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France († 1879)
• 1857 » Charles Harding Firth, English historian and academic († 1936)
• 1859 » Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic († 1906)
• 1865 » Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1869 » Willy Burmester, German violinist († 1933)
• 1871 » Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist († 1951)