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Birthday February 4, 1867

• The temperature on February 4, 1867 was about 6.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-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.
  • 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 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
  • 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.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Édouard Estaunié, French novelist († 1942)
• 1865 » Abe Isoo, Japanese minister and politician († 1949)
• 1868 » Constance Markievicz, Irish revolutionary and first woman elected to the UK House of Commons († 1927)
• 1871 » Friedrich Ebert, German lawyer and politician, 1st President of Germany († 1925)
• 1872 » Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian and Macedonian revolutionary activist († 1903)
• 1873 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian shot putter and discus thrower († 1905)