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Birthday June 22, 1863

• The temperature on June 22, 1863 was about 17.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 22 » American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
  • June 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
  • July 7 » The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
  • July 18 » American Civil War: Second Battle of Fort Wagner: One of the first formal African American military units, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, supported by several white regiments, attempts an unsuccessful assault on Confederate-held Battery Wagner.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley, the first submarine to sink a ship, sinks, killing its inventor.
  • November 27 » American Civil War: Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and several of his men escape the Ohio Penitentiary and return safely to the South.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Samuel Morris, Australian cricketer († 1931)
• 1856 » Henry Rider Haggard, English novelist († 1925)
• 1861 » Maximilian von Spee, Danish-German admiral († 1914)
• 1864 » Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician and academic († 1909)
• 1871 » William McDougall, English psychologist and polymath († 1938)
• 1873 » Filippo Silvestri, Italian entomologist and academic († 1949)