Conk/Robillard Family Tree » Laura Germain (1869-????)

Birthday June 21, 1869

• The temperature on June 21, 1869 was about 10.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
  • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Oscar Florianus Bluemner, German-American painter and illustrator († 1938)
• 1867 » William Brede Kristensen, Norwegian historian of religion († 1953)
• 1868 » Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist and anatomist († 1946)
• 1870 » Anthony Michell, English-Australian engineer († 1959)
• 1870 » Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic († 1915)
• 1870 » Julio Ruelas, Mexican painter († 1907)