Genealogy Van Eck op Goeree Overflakkee » levenloos geboren kind van Melis de HAAS (1869-1869)

Birthday February 21, 1869

• The temperature on February 21, 1869 was about 2.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
  • July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
  • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
  • October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Goscombe John, Welsh-English sculptor and academic († 1952)
• 1865 » John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School († 1967)
• 1867 » Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist († 1934)
• 1875 » Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian, oldest verified person ever († 1997)
• 1878 » Mirra Alfassa, French-Indian spiritual leader († 1973)
• 1881 » Kenneth J. Alford, English soldier, bandmaster, and composer († 1945)