Genealogy Van Raam » Felix de Groot (1869-????)

Birthday January 1, 1869

• The temperature on January 1, 1869 was about 1.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
  • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
  • September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
  • October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
  • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Pierre de Coubertin, French historian and educator, founded the International Olympic Committee († 1937)
• 1864 » Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer and curator († 1946)
• 1864 » Qi Baishi, Chinese painter († 1957)
• 1867 » Mary Ackworth Evershed, English astronomer and scholar († 1949)
• 1874 » Frank Knox, American publisher and politician, 46th United States Secretary of the Navy († 1944)
• 1874 » Gustave Whitehead, German-American pilot and engineer († 1927)