Wilferd Duckitt's Family Tree » Rachel Johanna Sophia Serfontein b1c1d1e1 (1870-????)

Birthday April 21, 1870

• The temperature on April 21, 1870 was about 25.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 32%. 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 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • 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.
  • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
  • September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
  • September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Max Weber, German economist and sociologist († 1920)
• 1868 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter († 1932)
• 1870 » Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1941)
• 1874 » Vincent Scotto, French actor and composer († 1952)
• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)