Kennedy Family Tree » Elspet Henderson Forman (1869-????)

Birthday April 28, 1869

• The temperature on April 28, 1869 was about 22.5 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 35%. 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.
  • February 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
  • October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
  • November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Josiah Thomas, English-Australian miner and politician, 7th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1933)
• 1865 » Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist and academic († 1940)
• 1868 » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic († 1908)
• 1868 » Lucy Booth, English composer († 1953)
• 1874 » Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author († 1936)
• 1874 » Sidney Toler, American actor and director († 1947)