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Birthday June 18, 1864

• The temperature on June 18, 1864 was about 15.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 26 » Montana is organized as a United States territory.
  • June 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road begins.
  • September 2 » American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, a day after the Confederate defenders flee the city, ending the Atlanta Campaign.
  • November 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.
  • November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Andrew Forsyth, Scottish-English mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1858 » Hector Rason, English-Australian politician, 7th Premier of Western Australia († 1927)
• 1862 » Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet († 1942)
• 1863 » George Essex Evans, English-Australian poet and author († 1909)
• 1868 » Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral and politician, Regent of Hungary († 1957)
• 1870 » Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher († 1954)