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Birthday September 25, 1867

• The temperature on September 25, 1867 was about 13.4 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
  • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
  • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Billy Hughes, English-Australian carpenter and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Australia († 1952)
• 1862 » Léon Boëllmann, French organist and composer († 1897)
• 1865 » Henri Lebasque, French artist († 1937)
• 1866 » Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, and embryologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1945)
• 1867 » Yevgeny Miller, Russian general († 1938)
• 1877 » Plutarco Elías Calles, Mexican general and President (1924-1928), known as the Jefe Maximo (Maximum Boss) from 1928-1936. († 1945)