Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Octave Goyette (1870-????)

Birthday September 20, 1870

• The temperature on September 20, 1870 was about 18.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 1870: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  • August 18 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Gravelotte is fought.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.
  • October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1872 » Maurice Gamelin, French general († 1958)
• 1873 » Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver († 1944)
• 1873 » Sidney Olcott, Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1875 » Matthias Erzberger, German publicist and politician († 1921)
• 1876 » Carleton Ellis, American inventor and chemist († 1941)
• 1878 » Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist († 1968)