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Birthday October 7, 1867

• The temperature on October 7, 1867 was about 11.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • 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.
  • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
  • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician († 1936)
• 1866 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1942)
• 1870 » Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian († 1952)
• 1876 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer († 1934)
• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)
• 1881 » Mikhail Drozdovsky, Ukrainian-Russian general († 1918)