Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » David Barend Lakmaker (1863-????)

Birthday June 10, 1863

• The temperature on June 10, 1863 was about 16.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 10 » The Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between Paddington and Farringdon, marking the beginning of the London Underground.
  • January 26 » American Civil War: General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker.
  • February 17 » A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: Union forces begin the Siege of Port Hudson which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history.
  • June 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Aldie in the Gettysburg Campaign.
  • July 26 » American Civil War: Morgan's Raid ends; At Salineville, Ohio, Confederate cavalry leader John Hunt Morgan and 360 of his volunteers are captured by Union forces.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1862 » Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress († 1937)
• 1863 » Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet († 1923)
• 1864 » Ninian Comper, Scottish architect († 1960)
• 1865 » Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer († 1940)