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Birthday January 23, 1864

• The temperature on January 23, 1864 was about 9.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • February 1 » Second Schleswig War: Prussian forces crossed the border into Schleswig, starting the war.
  • April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
  • July 29 » American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
  • October 9 » American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » John Browning, American weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company († 1926)
• 1857 » Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist († 1936)
• 1862 » David Hilbert, Russian-German mathematician and academic († 1943)
• 1862 » Frank Shuman, American inventor and engineer († 1918)
• 1872 » Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect, designed Plečnik Parliament († 1957)
• 1872 » Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic († 1946)