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Birthday July 1, 1864

• The temperature on July 1, 1864 was about 15.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
  • May 20 » American Civil War: Battle of Ware Bottom Church: In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
  • June 29 » At least 99 people, mostly German and Polish immigrants, are killed in Canada's worst railway disaster after a train fails to stop for an open drawbridge and plunges into the Rivière Richelieu near St-Hilaire, Quebec.
  • September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
  • October 19 » American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.
  • November 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1858 » Willard Metcalf, American painter († 1925)
• 1863 » William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer († 1892)
• 1869 » William Strunk Jr., American author and educator († 1946)
• 1872 » Louis Blériot, French pilot and engineer († 1936)
• 1872 » William Duddell, English physicist and engineer († 1917)