Kramer Family Tree » Bengt Jordahl Bengtsson (1869-????)

Birthday September 14, 1869

• The temperature on September 14, 1869 was about 15.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1867 » Charles Dana Gibson, American illustrator († 1944)
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• 1869 » Kid Nichols, American baseball player and manager († 1953)
• 1872 » John Olof Dahlgren, Swedish-American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient († 1963)