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Birthday January 4, 1864

• The temperature on January 4, 1864 was about -10.4 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
  • May 7 » American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
  • October 30 » The Treaty of Vienna is signed, by which Denmark relinquishes one province each to Prussia and Austria.
  • November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.
  • December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Carter Glass, American publisher and politician, 47th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1946)
• 1864 » Clara Emilia Smitt, Swedish doctor and author († 1928)
• 1869 » Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player and umpire († 1960)
• 1874 » Josef Suk, Czech violinist and composer († 1935)
• 1877 » Marsden Hartley, American painter and poet († 1943)
• 1878 » A. E. Coppard, English poet and short story writer († 1957)