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Birthday June 18, 1862

• The temperature on June 18, 1862 was about 15.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
  • January 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
  • June 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops evacuate Fort Pillow on the Mississippi River, leaving the way clear for Union troops to take Memphis, Tennessee.
  • July 1 » American Civil War: The Battle of Malvern Hill takes place. It is the last of the Seven Days Battles, part of George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign.
  • September 8 » Millennium of Russia monument is unveiled in Novgorod.
  • December 12 » American Civil War: USSCairo sinks on the Yazoo River.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Henry Clay Folger, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Folger Shakespeare Library († 1930)
• 1858 » Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1858 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia († 1927)
• 1862 » Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet († 1942)
• 1863 » George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author († 1909)
• 1868 » Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary († 1957)