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Birthday December 25, 1862

• The temperature on December 25, 1862 was about 8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
  • August 19 » American Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
  • September 13 » American Civil War: Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
  • November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Pud Galvin, American baseball player and manager († 1902)
• 1861 » Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress († 1946)
• 1865 » Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army († 1950)
• 1869 » Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author († 1941)
• 1870 » Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman and philanthropist († 1965)
• 1873 » Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator († 1959)