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Birthday November 14, 1863

• The temperature on November 14, 1863 was about 4.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
  • June 14 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Winchester: A Union garrison is defeated by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley town of Winchester, Virginia.
  • July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.
  • September 9 » American Civil War: The Union Army enters Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • November 25 » American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge: At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg.
  • November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott, American activist († 1945)
• 1861 » Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian and author († 1932)
• 1863 » Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer († 1944)
• 1869 » John Lumsden, Irish physician, founded the St. John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland († 1944)
• 1875 » Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general and politician († 1899)
• 1875 » Jakob Schaffner, Swiss author and activist († 1944)