Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » Aaltje Leeuwin (1862-????)

Birthday September 29, 1862

• The temperature on September 29, 1862 was about 18.0 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
• 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 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
  • February 21 » American Civil War: Battle of Valverde is fought near Fort Craig in New Mexico Territory.
  • June 19 » The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
  • July 15 » The CSS Arkansas, the most effective ironclad on the Mississippi River, battles with Union ships commanded by Admiral David Farragut, severely damaging three ships and sustaining heavy damage herself. The encounter changed the complexion of warfare on the Mississippi and helped to reverse Rebel fortunes on the river in the summer of 1862.
  • August 9 » American Civil War: Battle of Cedar Mountain: At Cedar Mountain, Virginia, Confederate General Stonewall Jackson narrowly defeats Union forces under General John Pope.
  • December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1844 » Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 10th President of Argentina († 1909)
• 1853 » Luther D. Bradley, American cartoonist († 1917)
• 1863 » Hugo Haase, German lawyer, jurist, and politician († 1919)
• 1864 » Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher and author († 1936)
• 1866 » Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian, academic, and politician († 1934)
• 1876 » Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer († 1964)