Family tree De Backer - Evers » Maria Louisa Bruggemans (1869-????)

Birthday June 14, 1869

• The temperature on June 14, 1869 was about 22.0 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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.
  • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
  • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
  • November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

Source: Wikipedia

• 1868 » Anna B. Eckstein, German peace activist († 1947)
• 1868 » Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1943)
• 1870 » Sophia of Prussia († 1932)
• 1871 » Hermanus Brockmann, Dutch rower († 1936)
• 1871 » Jacob Ellehammer, Danish mechanic and engineer († 1946)
• 1872 » János Szlepecz, Slovene priest and author († 1936)