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Birthday December 12, 1867

• The temperature on December 12, 1867 was about 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1845 » Bruce Price, American architect, designed the American Surety Building and Bank of the Metropolis († 1903)
• 1858 » Jacques Viger, Canadian archeologist and politician, 1st Mayor of Montreal (b. 1787)
• 1866 » Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1919)
• 1870 » Walter Benona Sharp, American businessman, co-founded Hughes Tool Company († 1912)
• 1876 » Alvin Kraenzlein, American hurdler and runner († 1928)
• 1881 » Louise Thuliez, French school teacher, resistance fighter during World War I and World War II and author († 1966)