Genealogy van het geslacht Dongelmans » Leendert Johannes de Jong (1863-????)

Birthday September 6, 1863

• The temperature on September 6, 1863 was about 14.3 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 1863: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 16 » American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
  • July 4 » American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to U.S. forces under Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. One hundred fifty miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.
  • September 6 » American Civil War: Confederate forces evacuate Battery Wagner and Morris Island in South Carolina.
  • September 16 » Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
  • October 29 » American Civil War: Battle of Wauhatchie: Forces under Union General Ulysses S. Grant repel a Confederate attack led by General James Longstreet. Union forces thus open a supply line into Chattanooga, Tennessee.
  • November 27 » American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1859 » Macpherson Robertson, Australian businessman and philanthropist, founded MacRobertson's († 1945)
• 1860 » Jane Addams, American sociologist and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1860 » May Jordan McConnel, Australian trade unionist and suffragist († 1929)
• 1861 » William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia († 1917)
• 1863 » Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator († 1935)
• 1868 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council († 1947)