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Birthday May 27, 1864

• The temperature on May 27, 1864 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 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 29 » Theta Xi fraternity is founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the only fraternity to be founded during the American Civil War.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
  • October 2 » American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues.
  • October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
  • October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
  • December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Theodor Curtius, German chemist († 1928)
• 1860 » Manuel Teixeira Gomes, Portuguese politician, 7th President of Portugal († 1941)
• 1863 » Arthur Mold, English cricketer († 1921)
• 1867 » Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright († 1931)
• 1868 » Aleksa Šantić, Bosnian poet and author († 1924)
• 1871 » Georges Rouault, French painter and illustrator († 1958)