Genealogy Van Dijken » Nn Aalberts (1870-1870)

Birthday April 23, 1870

• The temperature on April 23, 1870 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
  • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
  • September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Justinian Oxenham, Australian public servant († 1932)
• 1861 » Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, English field marshal and diplomat, British High Commissioner in Egypt († 1936)
• 1861 » John Peltz, American baseball player and manager († 1906)
• 1865 » Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general († 1943)
• 1867 » Johannes Fibiger, Danish physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1928)
• 1876 » Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, German historian and author († 1925)