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Birthday November 27, 1864

• The temperature on November 27, 1864 was about 5.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
  • May 15 » American Civil War: Battle of New Market, Virginia: Students from the Virginia Military Institute fight alongside the Confederate army to force Union General Franz Sigel out of the Shenandoah Valley.
  • July 30 » American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.
  • 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 11 » American Civil War: General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta to the ground in preparation for his march to the sea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Charles Scott Sherrington, English physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1952)
• 1859 » William Bliss Baker, American painter († 1886)
• 1865 » Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene priest, journalist, and politician († 1917)
• 1867 » Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator († 1950)
• 1870 » Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish academic and politician, 7th President of Finland († 1956)
• 1871 » Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist and engineer († 1950)