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Birthday December 10, 1870

• The temperature on December 10, 1870 was about -0.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
  • 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.
  • February 28 » The Bulgarian Exarchate is established by decree of Sultan Abdülaziz of the Ottoman Empire.
  • March 16 » The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist († 1930)
• 1870 » Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician († 1933)
• 1870 » Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian († 1958)
• 1870 » Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet († 1925)
• 1878 » C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India († 1972)
• 1882 » Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher († 1945)