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Birthday July 27, 1864

• The temperature on July 27, 1864 was about 18.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
  • April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
  • April 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
  • 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.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
  • November 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist (d.1934)
• 1857 » José Celso Barbosa, Puerto Rican physician, sociologist, and politician († 1921)
• 1858 » George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer († 1938)
• 1866 » António José de Almeida, Portuguese physician and politician, 6th President of Portugal († 1929)
• 1867 » Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer († 1916)
• 1870 » Hilaire Belloc, French-born British writer and historian († 1953)