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Birthday April 1, 1863

• The temperature on April 1, 1863 was about 9.6 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 37%. 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 8 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Springfield.
  • March 19 » The SSGeorgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
  • April 17 » American Civil War: Grierson's Raid begins: Troops under Union Army Colonel Benjamin Grierson attack central Mississippi.
  • 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.
  • September 7 » American Civil War: Union troops under Quincy A. Gillmore captures Fort Wagner in Morris Island after a 7-week siege.
  • October 29 » Eighteen countries meet in Geneva and agree to form the International Red Cross.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1929)
• 1866 » Ève Lavallière, French actress († 1929)
• 1866 » Ferruccio Busoni, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1924)
• 1866 » William Blomfield, New Zealand cartoonist and politician († 1938)
• 1868 » Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright († 1918)
• 1868 » Walter Mead, English cricketer († 1954)