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1864 Calendar

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•  April 22, 1864 – The U.S. Congress passes the Coinage Act of 1864 that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins minted as United States currency.
•  July 29, 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
•  August 23, 1864 – The Union Navy captures Fort Morgan, Alabama, thus breaking Confederate dominance of all ports on the Gulf of Mexico.
•  August 31, 1864 – During the American Civil War, Union forces led by General William T. Sherman launch an assault on Atlanta, Georgia.
•  September 1, 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate General John Bell Hood evacuates Atlanta, Georgia after a four-month siege by General Sherman.
•  September 5, 1864 – Achille François Bazaine becomes Marshall of France.
•  September 7, 1864 – American Civil War: Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman.
•  October 2, 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
•  October 5, 1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
•  October 7, 1864 – American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the Ship CSS Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.

•  January 1, 1864 – Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
•  January 8, 1864 – Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale (d. 1892)
•  February 17, 1864 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
•  March 15, 1864 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
•  June 13, 1864 – Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist (d. 1922)
•  June 25, 1864 – Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1941)
•  July 18, 1864 – Phillip Snowden, British politician (d. 1937)
•  July 23, 1864 – Apolinario Mabini, Filipino political theoretician (d. 1903)
•  December 3, 1864 – Herman Heijermans, Dutch writer (d. 1924)
•  December 27, 1864 – René Georges Hermann-Paul, French artist (d. 1940)