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Birthday October 18, 1863

• The temperature on October 18, 1863 was about 11.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 22 » The January Uprising breaks out in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. The aim of the national movement is to regain Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth from occupation by Russia.
  • January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
  • February 17 » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
  • May 6 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville ends with the defeat of the Army of the Potomac by the Army of Northern Virginia.
  • June 7 » During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
  • July 1 » Keti Koti (Emancipation Day) in Suriname, marking the abolition of slavery by the Netherlands.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Henri Bergson, French philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1862 » Mehmet Esat Bülkat, Ottoman general († 1952)
• 1865 » Arie de Jong, Dutch linguist and author († 1957)
• 1865 » Logan Pearsall Smith, American-English author and critic († 1946)
• 1868 » Ernst Didring, Swedish author († 1931)
• 1870 » D. T. Suzuki, Japanese author and scholar († 1966)