From Castles to America » William O. (William O.) Focht (1864-????)

Birthday June 14, 1864

• The temperature on June 14, 1864 was about 22.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 25 » American Civil War: The Battle of Marks' Mills.
  • 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.
  • May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
  • September 1 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army General John Bell Hood orders the evacuation of Atlanta, ending a four-month siege by General William Tecumseh Sherman.
  • September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
  • December 8 » Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors, outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas.

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• 1862 » John Ulric Nef, Swiss-American chemist and academic († 1915)
• 1864 » Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist († 1915)
• 1868 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist († 1947)
• 1868 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1870 » Sophia of Prussia († 1932)
• 1871 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower († 1936)