The Brown Tree » Robert RUSSELL (1862-????)

Birthday September 27, 1862

• The temperature on September 27, 1862 was about 18.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 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.
• In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 16 » Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
  • February 15 » American Civil War: Confederates commanded by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd attack General Ulysses S. Grant's Union forces Fort Donelson, Tennessee. Unable to break the fort's encirclement, Lloyd surrenders the following day.
  • March 28 » American Civil War: In the Battle of Glorieta Pass, Union forces stop the Confederate invasion of the New Mexico Territory. The battle began on March 26.
  • September 14 » American Civil War: The Battle of South Mountain, part of the Maryland Campaign, is fought.
  • September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
  • November 9 » American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, American poet and author († 1933)
• 1864 » Andrej Hlinka, Slovak priest and politician († 1938)
• 1866 » Eurosia Fabris, Italian saint († 1932)
• 1871 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1879 » Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach († 1962)
• 1879 » Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher († 1934)