Genealogy Reedijk » Adriana SMOUTER (1864-????)

Birthday June 28, 1864

• The temperature on June 28, 1864 was about 12.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 18 » Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
  • May 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
  • May 13 » American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta.
  • August 17 » American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida.
  • September 18 » American Civil War: John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman back out of Georgia.
  • November 29 » American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1852 » Charles Cruft, English showman, founded Crufts Dog Show († 1938)
• 1867 » Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1873 » Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1875 » Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1879 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist († 1949)
• 1880 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player († 1971)