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Birthday March 7, 1861

• The temperature on March 7, 1861 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Alexander II of Russia signs the Emancipation Manifesto, freeing serfs.
  • June 8 » American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
  • July 21 » American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
  • October 1 » Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
  • October 24 » The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
  • December 21 » Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1849 » Luther Burbank, American botanist and author († 1926)
• 1850 » Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1921)
• 1850 » Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia († 1937)
• 1857 » Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1940)
• 1872 » Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter († 1944)
• 1873 » Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress († 1959)