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Birthday December 5, 1867

• The temperature on December 5, 1867 was about -4.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • February 28 » Seventy years of Holy See–United States relations are ended by a Congressional ban on federal funding of diplomatic envoys to the Vatican and are not restored until January 10, 1984.
  • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1866 » Traian Demetrescu, Romanian poet and author († 1896)
• 1867 » Antti Aarne, Finnish author and academic († 1925)
• 1867 » Józef Piłsudski, Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Poland († 1935)
• 1868 » Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1869 » Ellis Parker Butler, American author and poet († 1937)