Stambeam Jan en Richtje van der Meer » Eeke Gerbens Siegersma (1869-????)

Birthday March 19, 1869

• The temperature on March 19, 1869 was about 5.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
  • 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

• 1864 » Charles Marion Russell, American painter and sculptor († 1926)
• 1865 » William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic († 1937)
• 1868 » Senda Berenson Abbott, Lithuanian-American basketball player and educator († 1954)
• 1871 » Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach († 1921)
• 1872 » Anna Held, Polish singer († 1918)
• 1873 » Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor († 1916)