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Birthday May 25, 1864

• The temperature on May 25, 1864 was about 12.1 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
  • July 22 » American Civil War: Battle of Atlanta: Outside Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood leads an unsuccessful attack on Union troops under General William T. Sherman on Bald Hill.
  • July 28 » American Civil War: Battle of Ezra Church: Confederate troops make a third unsuccessful attempt to drive Union forces from Atlanta, Georgia.
  • August 10 » After Uruguay's governing Blanco Party refuses Brazil's demands, José Antônio Saraiva announces that the Brazilian military will begin reprisals, beginning the Uruguayan War.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • November 30 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic († 1944)
• 1865 » John Mott, American evangelist and saint, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1865 » Pieter Zeeman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1867 » Anders Peter Nielsen, Danish target shooter († 1950)
• 1869 » Mathilde Verne, English pianist and educator († 1936)
• 1869 » Robbie Ross, Canadian journalist and art critic († 1918)