About the day » Wednesday June 11, 1862Calender converter

• Andrew Godshalk KENDLE
• ? ? († 1862)
• Aafje van der Winden, Enkhuizen, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antonie Venderbosch, Lichtenvoorde († 1926)
• Anna Catharina Driessen, Stein, Limburg, Nederland († 1869)
• adriaantje STAM, dubbeldam
• Anna Maria Bach, Bad Salzig, Rhein-Hunsruck-Kreis, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland
• Anna Sterenberg, Wildervank († 1938)
• Anna Geertruida Josephina Roth, Rotterdam, Zuid Holland, Nederland († 1931)
• Anna Catharina van der Marel, Naaldwijk († 1941)

• Albert Nannes Kranenborg (64), Midwolda
• Aartje Jansen van de Kuit (75), Otterlo
• Aartje VAN DE KUIT (77), Otterlo
• Adriana Holierhoek (4), Schipluiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aartje Jans van de Kuit (75), Otterlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adrianus van Donk (19), Alphen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aaltje Jans van de Kuit (76), Otterlo
• Takens (0), Meeden
• Alewijn van de Poll (67), Amsterdam
• Adrianus Lips (64), Maassluis, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• 1846 » William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer († 1920)
• 1847 » Millicent Fawcett, English academic and activist († 1929)
• 1861 » Alexander Peacock, Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria († 1933)
• 1864 » Richard Strauss, German composer and conductor († 1949)
• 1867 » Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic († 1945)
• 1871 » Stjepan Radić, Croatian lawyer and politician († 1928)
• 1876 » Alfred L. Kroeber, American-French anthropologist and ethnologist († 1960)
• 1877 » Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author († 1909)
• 1879 » Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and manager († 1944)
• 1880 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician († 1973)

• 1847 » John Franklin, English admiral and politician (b. 1786)
• 1852 » Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
• 1859 » Klemens von Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (b. 1773)
• 1879 » William, Prince of Orange (b. 1840)
• 1882 » Louis Désiré Maigret, French bishop (b. 1804)
• 1885 » Matías Ramos Mejía, Argentinian colonel (b. 1810)
• 1897 » Henry Ayers, English-Australian politician, 8th Premier of South Australia (b. 1821)
• 1903 » Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1876)
• 1903 » Draga Mašin, Serbian wife of Alexander I of Serbia (b. 1864)
• 1903 » Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1837)

• 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.
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• February 10 » American Civil War: A Union naval flotilla destroys the bulk of the Confederate Mosquito Fleet in the Battle of Elizabeth City on the Pasquotank River in North Carolina.
• March 23 » American Civil War: The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• May 20 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law, opening 84million acres of public land to settlers.
• August 6 » American Civil War: The Confederate ironclad CSSArkansas is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering catastrophic engine failure near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• November 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.
• December 26 » Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USSRed Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.

The temperature on June 11, 1862 was about 14.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%.