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Birthday October 13, 1870

• The temperature on October 13, 1870 was about 11.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 45 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • 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.
  • March 16 » The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
  • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author († 1900)
• 1870 » Albert Jay Nock, American theorist, author, and critic († 1945)
• 1872 » Leon Leonwood Bean, American hunter, businessman, and author, founded L.L.Bean († 1967)
• 1873 » Georgios Kafantaris, Greek politician and Prime Minister of Greece († 1946)
• 1874 » József Klekl, Slovene-Hungarian priest and politician († 1948)
• 1876 » Rube Waddell, American baseball player († 1914)