Genealogy Van der Dussen » Adrianus Cornelis Johannes Raats (1864-????)

Birthday March 8, 1864

• The temperature on March 8, 1864 was about 7.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 1864: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • May 26 » Montana is organized as a United States territory.
  • May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
  • July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
  • October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
  • November 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1848 » LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster († 1917)
• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)