January 8 » George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York City.
May 31 » Manuel Quimper explores the Strait of Juan de Fuca.
July 9 » The Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian Baltic fleet.
July 31 » The first U.S. patent is issued, to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.
August 2 » The first United States Census is conducted.
December 31 » Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
Day of death January 6, 1864
The temperature on January 6, 1864 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. Source: KNMI
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.
April 22 » The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
August 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
August 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
August 31 » During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta.
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 22 » American Civil War: Savannah, Georgia, falls to the forces of General Sherman.
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