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Birthday September 30, 1863

• The temperature on September 30, 1863 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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.
  • July 3 » American Civil War: The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett's Charge.
  • July 7 » The United States begins its first military draft; exemptions cost $300.
  • October 26 » The Football Association is founded.
  • October 31 » The New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato.
  • November 24 » American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1852 » Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer, conductor, and educator († 1924)
• 1861 » William Wrigley, Jr., American businessman, founded Wrigley Company († 1932)
• 1863 » Reinhard Scheer, German admiral († 1928)
• 1870 » Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1942)
• 1870 » Thomas W. Lamont, American banker and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1882 » Hans Geiger, German physicist and academic († 1945)