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Birthday July 13, 1869

• The temperature on July 13, 1869 was about 12.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
  • October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
  • December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Stewart Culin, American ethnographer and author († 1929)
• 1859 » Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, English economist and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies († 1947)
• 1863 » Margaret Murray, British archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist († 1963)
• 1864 » John Jacob Astor IV, American colonel and businessman († 1912)
• 1877 » Robert Henry Mathews, Australian linguist and missionary († 1970)
• 1884 » Yrjö Saarela, Finnish wrestler and coach († 1951)