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Birthday December 8, 1864

• The temperature on December 8, 1864 was about -0.4 °C. The air pressure was 1.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • March 15 » American Civil War: The Red River Campaign: U.S. Navy fleet arrives at Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • May 7 » The world's oldest surviving clipper ship, the City of Adelaide is launched by William Pile, Hay and Co. in Sunderland, England, for transporting passengers and goods between Britain and Australia.
  • May 29 » Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives in Mexico for the first time.
  • May 31 » American Civil War: Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: The Army of Northern Virginia engages the Army of the Potomac.
  • June 12 » American Civil War, Overland Campaign: Battle of Cold Harbor: Ulysses S. Grant gives the Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee a victory when he pulls his Union troops from their position at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
  • October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Georges Feydeau, French playwright († 1921)
• 1863 » Charles Lincoln Edwards, American zoologist († 1937)
• 1864 » Camille Claudel, French illustrator and sculptor († 1943)
• 1865 » Jacques Hadamard, French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1865 » Jean Sibelius, Finnish violinist and composer († 1957)
• 1865 » Rüdiger von der Goltz, German general († 1946)