Genealogy Van Heeren » levenloos geboren kind REIJERKERK (1868-1868)

Birthday May 6, 1868

• The temperature on May 6, 1868 was about 12.3 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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).
• 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 1868: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 2 » Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.
  • June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
  • September 19 » La Gloriosa begins in Spain.
  • September 23 » Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
  • November 30 » A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården.
  • December 25 » Pardons for ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1868 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author († 1927)
• 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)