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Birthday May 8, 1870

• The temperature on May 8, 1870 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
  • 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.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
  • September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Pedro Lascuráin, Mexican politician, president for 45 minutes on February 13, 1913. († 1952)
• 1858 » Heinrich Berté, Slovak-Austrian composer († 1924)
• 1858 » J. Meade Falkner, English author and poet († 1932)
• 1859 » Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer († 1925)
• 1867 » Margarete Böhme, German novelist († 1939)
• 1879 » Wesley Coe, American shot putter, discus thrower, and tug of war competitor († 1926)