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Birthday September 13, 1870

• The temperature on September 13, 1870 was about 13.3 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
  • January 26 » Reconstruction Era: Virginia rejoins the Union.
  • February 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • March 16 » The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
  • June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1872 » Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, 44th Prime Minister of Japan († 1951)
• 1873 » Constantin Carathéodory, German mathematician and author († 1950)
• 1874 » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter († 1951)
• 1874 » Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician († 1962)
• 1876 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer († 1941)