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Birthday September 4, 1869

• The temperature on September 4, 1869 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%. 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 June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
• In the year 1869: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1850 » Luigi Cadorna, Italian field marshal († 1928)
• 1851 » John Dillon, Irish poet and politician († 1927)
• 1885 » Antonio Bacci, Italian cardinal († 1971)
• 1886 » Albert Orsborn, English 6th General of The Salvation Army († 1967)
• 1887 » Roy William Neill, Irish-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1946)
• 1888 » Oskar Schlemmer, German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer († 1943)