Pedigree of Gerrit Eersen » Jacoba van Sligtenhorst (1865-< 1937)

Birthday March 14, 1865

• The temperature on March 14, 1865 was about 2.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 1865: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces.
  • March 18 » American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
  • April 3 » American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
  • July 21 » In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
  • July 27 » Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.
  • July 30 » The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1915)
• 1862 » Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist († 1951)
• 1863 » Casey Jones, American engineer († 1900)
• 1868 » Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist († 1933)
• 1869 » Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright († 1951)
• 1874 » Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics († 1951)