Database Van Broekhoven » Doodgeboren zoon Apon (1870)

Birthday November 8, 1870

• There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • January 6 » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
  • January 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • February 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • August 24 » The Wolseley expedition reaches Manitoba to end the Red River Rebellion.
  • November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company († 1941)
• 1868 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1878 » Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist († 1951)
• 1881 » Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1883 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet († 1953)
• 1883 » Charles Demuth, American painter († 1935)