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Birthday August 26, 1864

• The temperature on August 26, 1864 was about 13.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 29 » Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
  • May 9 » Second Schleswig War: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.
  • May 26 » Montana is organized as a United States territory.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
  • 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.
  • October 9 » American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Arnold Fothergill, English cricketer († 1932)
• 1856 » Clara Schønfeld, Danish actress († 1939)
• 1862 » Herbert Booth, Canadian songwriter and bandleader († 1926)
• 1865 » Arthur James Arnot, Scottish-Australian engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station († 1946)
• 1873 » Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube († 1961)
• 1874 » Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1938)