Kennedy Family Tree » Elsie Maria Smith (1864-1946)

Birthday September 7, 1864

• The temperature on September 7, 1864 was about 16.9 °C. There was 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 79%. 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.
  • February 17 » American Civil War: The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USSHousatonic.
  • May 7 » American Civil War: The Army of the Potomac, under General Ulysses S. Grant, breaks off from the Battle of the Wilderness and moves southwards.
  • June 5 » American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
  • June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
  • 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 4 » American Civil War: Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Grandma Moses, American painter († 1961)
• 1862 » Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist († 1932)
• 1866 » Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright († 1947)
• 1867 » Albert Bassermann, German-Swiss actor († 1952)
• 1867 » J. P. Morgan Jr., American banker and philanthropist († 1943)
• 1869 » Ben Viljoen, South African general († 1917)