Andersen Family Tree » Dirk Anthonie Treur (1864-????)

Birthday October 8, 1864

• The temperature on October 8, 1864 was about 12.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
  • April 8 » American Civil War: Battle of Mansfield: Union forces are thwarted by the Confederate army at Mansfield, Louisiana.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
  • August 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
  • October 15 » American Civil War: The Union garrison of Glasgow, Missouri surrenders to Confederate forces.
  • October 28 » American Civil War: A Union attack on the Confederate capital is repulsed.
  • December 10 » American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » John D. Batten, British painter, printmaker and illustrator (d.1932)
• 1863 » Edythe Chapman, American actress († 1948)
• 1864 » Ozias Leduc, Canadian painter and educator († 1955)
• 1870 » Louis Vierne, French organist and composer († 1937)
• 1872 » Mary Engle Pennington, American bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer († 1952)
• 1873 » Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer († 1967)