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Birthday November 20, 1863

• The temperature on November 20, 1863 was about 1.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. 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.
  • April 2 » American Civil War: The largest in a series of Southern bread riots occurs in Richmond, Virginia.
  • May 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chancellorsville begins.
  • May 27 » American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.
  • June 7 » During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
  • November 19 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  • December 16 » American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » José Figueroa Alcorta, President of Argentina, († 1931)
• 1861 » Camillo Laurenti, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church († 1938)
• 1862 » Edvard Westermarck, Finnish philosopher and sociologist († 1939)
• 1862 » Georges Palante, French philosopher and sociologist († 1925)
• 1864 » Percy Cox, British Indian Army officer († 1937)
• 1866 » Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge († 1944)