Birthdays
James Edmund Bailey
Turns 42 on this date
Charles C. Davis
Turns 34 on this date
Thomas Bull Jacobs
Turns 52 on this date
George Godfrey Leland
Turns 40 on this date
Events
| US/the World | In Belfast, Catholics retaliate against Protestant rioters and the mobs battle in the streets |
08/15/1864 to 08/17/1864 |
| Battles/Soldiers | The U.S. Navy seizes a Confederate raider, now a British civilian vessel, off the coast of Portugal | 08/15/1864 |