Genealogy Bovenschen, Looijenga, Van Gelderen en Van Donk » Hermanus van den Hengel (1869-????)

Birthday February 7, 1869

• The temperature on February 7, 1869 was about 11.6 °C. The air pressure was 33 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • 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.
  • December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Arthur Collins, American baritone singer († 1933)
• 1867 » Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author († 1957)
• 1870 » Alfred Adler, Austrian-Scottish psychologist and therapist († 1937)
• 1871 » Wilhelm Stenhammar, Swedish pianist, composer, and conductor († 1927)
• 1873 » Thomas Andrews, Irish shipbuilder and businessman, designed the RMS Titanic († 1912)
• 1877 » G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and geneticist († 1947)