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Birthday February 27, 1864

• The temperature on February 27, 1864 was about 1.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 29 » American Civil War: Kilpatrick–Dahlgren Raid fails: Plans to free 15,000 Union soldiers being held near Richmond, Virginia are thwarted.
  • 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.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
  • September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
  • October 7 » American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Bertha Pappenheim, Austrian-German activist and author († 1936)
• 1863 » George Herbert Mead, American sociologist and philosopher († 1930)
• 1863 » Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter († 1923)
• 1864 » Eemil Nestor Setälä, Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1935)
• 1867 » Irving Fisher, American economist and statistician († 1947)
• 1867 » Wilhelm Peterson-Berger, Swedish composer and critic († 1942)