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Birthday January 2, 1867

• The temperature on January 2, 1867 was about -0.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
  • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
  • June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
  • November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
  • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Dugald Campbell Patterson, Canadian engineer († 1931)
• 1866 » Gilbert Murray, Australian-English playwright and scholar († 1957)
• 1870 » Ernst Barlach, German sculptor and playwright († 1938)
• 1870 » Tex Rickard, American boxing promoter and businessman († 1929)
• 1873 » Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and theorist († 1960)
• 1873 » Thérèse of Lisieux, French nun and saint († 1897)