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Birthday November 22, 1862

• The temperature on November 22, 1862 was about 1.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 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 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 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
  • January 30 » The first American ironclad warship, the USSMonitor is launched.
  • June 20 » Barbu Catargiu, the Prime Minister of Romania, is assassinated.
  • September 4 » American Civil War Maryland Campaign: General Robert E. Lee takes the Army of Northern Virginia, and the war, into the North.
  • December 1 » In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • December 26 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Heber J. Grant, American religious leader, 7th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1945)
• 1857 » George Gissing, English novelist († 1903)
• 1859 » Cecil Sharp, English folk song scholar († 1924)
• 1861 » Ranavalona III of Madagascar († 1917)
• 1868 » John Nance Garner, American lawyer and politician, 32nd Vice President of the United States († 1967)
• 1869 » André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)