Family tree Ro(o)vers » Johannes van Dijk (1867-????)

Birthday February 6, 1867

• The temperature on February 6, 1867 was about 5.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
  • September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
  • November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist and academic († 1953)
• 1864 » John Henry Mackay, Scottish-German philosopher and author († 1933)
• 1866 » Karl Sapper, German linguist and explorer († 1945)
• 1872 » Robert Maillart, Swiss engineer, designed the Salginatobel Bridge and Schwandbach Bridge († 1940)
• 1874 » Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, Indian religious leader, founded the Gaudiya Math († 1937)
• 1875 » Leonid Gobyato, Russian general († 1915)