Family tree Van Willigen » Hendrikus Theodorus van der Willigen (1864-????)

Birthday October 7, 1864

• The temperature on October 7, 1864 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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.
  • May 12 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House: Union troops assault a Confederate salient known as the "Mule Shoe", with the fiercest fighting of the war, much of it hand-to-hand combat, occurring at "the Bloody Angle" on the northwest.
  • May 21 » American Civil War: The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House ends.
  • May 21 » The Ionian Islands reunite with Greece.
  • May 22 » American Civil War: After ten weeks, the Union Army's Red River Campaign ends in failure.
  • July 11 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Stevens; Confederate forces attempt to invade Washington, D.C.
  • November 25 » American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1849 » James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author († 1916)
• 1860 » Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Greek general and politician († 1936)
• 1866 » Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1942)
• 1870 » Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian († 1952)
• 1876 » Louis Tancred, South African cricketer († 1934)
• 1879 » Joe Hill, Swedish-born American labor activist and poet († 1915)