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Birthday September 4, 1863

• The temperature on September 4, 1863 was about 21.3 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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.
  • May 17 » Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language.
  • May 23 » The General German Workers' Association, a precursor of the modern Social Democratic Party of Germany, is founded in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
  • July 7 » The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
  • August 16 » The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter.
  • September 19 » American Civil War: The first day of the Battle of Chickamauga, in northwestern Georgia, the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theater.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1846 » Daniel Burnham, American architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition († 1912)
• 1848 » Jennie Lee, American actress († 1925)
• 1848 » Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor († 1928)
• 1850 » Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal († 1928)
• 1851 » John Dillon, Irish poet and politician († 1927)
• 1885 » Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal († 1971)