Family tree Glasmeier (Dld) » Karel Petrus Antonius Maria Sormani (1861-????)

Birthday June 6, 1861

• The temperature on June 6, 1861 was about 17.5 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
• 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 year 1861: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 9 » American Civil War: "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina.
  • March 11 » American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
  • July 16 » American Civil War: At the order of President Abraham Lincoln, Union troops begin a 25-mile march into Virginia for what will become the First Battle of Bull Run, the first major land battle of the war.
  • October 1 » Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
  • November 7 » American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
  • November 28 » American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Missouri to be the 12th state of the Confederacy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1850 » Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1918)
• 1857 » Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist († 1918)
• 1862 » Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet († 1938)
• 1867 » David T. Abercrombie, American surveyor and businessman, founded Abercrombie & Fitch († 1931)
• 1868 » Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer († 1912)
• 1872 » Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress († 1918)