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Birthday July 19, 1864

• The temperature on July 19, 1864 was about 14.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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.
  • May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
  • June 3 » American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor: Union forces attack Confederate troops in Hanover County, Virginia.
  • August 22 » Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
  • 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.
  • November 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Lizzie Borden, American woman, tried and acquitted for the murders of her parents in 1892 († 1927)
• 1864 » Fiammetta Wilson, English astronomer († 1920)
• 1865 » Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, founded the Mayo Clinic († 1939)
• 1865 » Georges Friedel, French mineralogist and crystallographer († 1933)
• 1868 » Florence Foster Jenkins, American soprano and educator († 1944)
• 1869 » Xenophon Stratigos, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister of Transport († 1927)