Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, making the abolition of slavery an official war goal of the American Civil War (Jan 1), the first section of the London Underground opens officially (Jan 10), Adam Opel founds Opel AG (Jan 21), the foundation for the International Red Cross are laid in Geneva (Feb 9), Alanson Crane patents a fire extinguisher (Feb 10), Battle of Gettysburg begins, the Union winning it (Jul 1), the New Zealand Wars against the Maori people resume (Jul 17), Lincoln proclaims a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November (Oct 3), Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address (Nov 19), Gerard Heineken buys the Haystack brewery in Amsterdam (Dec 15), linoleum is patented in the United Kingdom, and association football is played for the first time (Dec 19), the American Civil War goes on – and all these fine people were born:
1863-0101 Pierre de Coubertin* educator/historian/founder of the International Olympic Committee – Paris, France (1937/74)
1863-0117 David Lloyd George* Welsh politician – Manchester, England (1945/82)
1863-0227 Joaquín Sorolla* painter – Valencia, Spain (1923/60)
1863-0303 Arthur Machen* author/mystic/actor – Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales (1947/84)
1863-0318 Charles Chaplin Sr.* music hall entertainer – Marylebone, London, England (1901/38)
1863-0322 G.R.S. Mead* historian/writer/translator – Peckham, Surrey, England (1933/70)
1863-0327 Henry Royce* co-founder of Rolls-Royce – Alwalton, Huntingdonshire, England (1933/70)
1863-0429 William Randolph Hearst* San Fransisco, California USA (1951/88)
1863-0619 William A. Brady* actor/producer/ sports promotor – New York, NY USA (1950/86)
1863-0713 Margaret Murray* Anglo-Indian egyptologist/anthropologist/historian – Calcutta, British India (1963/100)-a
1863-0730 Henry Ford* captain of industry – Greenfield Township, Michigan USA (1947/83)
1863-0817 Gene Stratton-Porter* author/nature photographer – Lagro, Indiana USA (1924/61)
1863-1206 Charles Martin Hall* chemist/inventor/businessman – Thompson, OH USA (1914/51)-a
1863-1212 Edvard Munch* painter (The Scream) – Ådalsbruk, Löten, Norway (1944/80)
1863-1215 Arthur D. Little* chemist/chemical engineer/entrepreneur – Boston, MA USA (1935/71)-a
Updated 22.3.2019
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