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Birthday December 31, 1864

• The temperature on December 31, 1864 was about -1.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
  • April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
  • September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
  • November 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.
  • November 15 » American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins Sherman's March to the Sea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar († 1912)
• 1857 » King Kelly, American baseball player and manager († 1894)
• 1860 » Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco († 1937)
• 1864 » Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic († 1951)
• 1869 » Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor († 1954)
• 1872 » Fred Marriott, American race car driver († 1956)