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Birthday November 27, 1867

• There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician († 1917)
• 1867 » Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator († 1950)
• 1870 » Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland († 1956)
• 1871 » Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer († 1950)
• 1874 » Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel († 1952)
• 1874 » Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School († 1948)