About the day » Wednesday February 24, 1869Calender converter

• Adriana Maria van der Hoeven, Delft, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1869)
• adriana SCHUITMAN, oud-beijerland
• Adam Lampèzyk, Biestrzynnik, Gmina Ozimek, Powiat opolski, Opole Voivodeship, Polen
• Aaltien Jonker, Ruinen († 1950)
• Alberdina Klein Nulent, Verwolde (Laren Gld) († 1900)
• Aaltje Welgraven, Renkum, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Aleida van der Loo, Oijen en Teeffelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1943)
• Adriaan Henricus Spierings, Goirle, Noord-Brabant († 1942)
• Adrianus Maria van den Brekel, Moergestel († 1931)
• Albertje Stoter, Hoogeveen Drenthe, Netherlands († 1877)

• Albert Bien (61), Edam Volendam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Antje Som (72), Opmeer
• Albert Gerrits Bien (61), Volendam
• Anna Catharina Koopmans (0), Dinteloord
• Anna Catharina Koopmans (0), Dinteloord en Prinsenland, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adelheid Henriëtte Antoinette Stephanie van Rohan-Chabot (75), Parijs
• Aaltje Jans Havinga (58), Marion County, Iowa, Verenigde Staten
• Albert (Ab van de Bel) Bien (61), Volendam
• Albert Gerrits Bien (61), Edam
• Anne Léonie Baudry (9), Grignon, 21150, France

• 1848 » Andrew Inglis Clark, Australian engineer, lawyer, and politician († 1907)
• 1852 » George Moore, Irish author, poet, and playwright († 1933)
• 1868 » Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier and polo player († 1949)
• 1869 » Zara DuPont, American suffragist († 1946)
• 1874 » Honus Wagner, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1955)
• 1877 » Ettie Rout, Australian-New Zealand educator and activist († 1936)
• 1877 » Rudolph Ganz, Swiss pianist, composer, and conductor († 1972)
• 1885 » Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral († 1966)
• 1885 » Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Polish author, poet, and painter († 1939)
• 1890 » Marjorie Main, American actress († 1975)

• 1812 » Étienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
• 1815 » Robert Fulton, American engineer (b. 1765)
• 1825 » Thomas Bowdler, English physician and philanthropist (b. 1754)
• 1856 » Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1792)
• 1876 » Joseph Jenkins Roberts, American-Liberian politician, 1st President of Liberia (b. 1809)
• 1879 » Shiranui Kōemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 11th Yokozuna (b. 1825)
• 1910 » Osman Hamdi Bey, Greek archaeologist and painter (b. 1842)
• 1914 » Joshua Chamberlain, American general and politician, 32nd Governor of Maine (b. 1828)
• 1925 » Hjalmar Branting, Swedish journalist and politician, 16th Prime Minister of Sweden, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1927 » Edward Marshall Hall, English lawyer and politician (b. 1858)

• 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).
• The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
• April 6 » Celluloid is patented.
• May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
• 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.
• 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 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

The temperature on February 24, 1869 was about 1.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%.