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Birthday August 1, 1867

• The temperature on August 1, 1867 was about 17.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Gaston Doumergue, French lawyer and politician, 13th President of France († 1937)
• 1858 » Hans Rott, Austrian organist and composer († 1884)
• 1860 » Bazil Assan, Romanian engineer and explorer († 1918)
• 1861 » Sammy Jones, Australian cricketer († 1951)
• 1865 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter († 1917)
• 1871 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player († 1969)