Descendants Heeres » Jacobus Elhorst (1870-????)

Birthday January 21, 1870

• The temperature on January 21, 1870 was about -1.7 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
  • July 1 » The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author († 1921)
• 1867 » Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general († 1965)
• 1868 » Felix Hoffmann, German chemist († 1946)
• 1869 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic († 1916)
• 1871 » Olga Preobrajenska, Russian ballerina († 1962)
• 1873 » Arturo Labriola, Italian revolutionary syndicalist († 1959)