FutureHistory » Theophilus Joannes Josephus van Landeghem (1864-????)

Birthday November 15, 1864

• The temperature on November 15, 1864 was about 5.4 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Fort Pillow: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
  • June 15 » Arlington National Cemetery is established when 200 acres (0.81km) of the Arlington estate (formerly owned by Confederate General Robert E. Lee) are officially set aside as a military cemetery by U.S. Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
  • August 22 » Twelve nations sign the First Geneva Convention, establishing the rules of protection of the victims of armed conflicts.
  • August 23 » American Civil War: The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico except Galveston, Texas.
  • November 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.
  • 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

• 1859 » Christopher Hornsrud, Norwegian businessman and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Norway († 1960)
• 1862 » Gerhart Hauptmann, German novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1946)
• 1865 » John Earle, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Tasmania († 1932)
• 1867 » Emil Krebs, German polyglot († 1930)
• 1868 » Emil Racoviță, Romanian biologist, zoologist, and explorer († 1947)
• 1873 » Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic († 1945)