Family tree De Bode » Jacoba Maria van Vliet (1870-????)

Birthday September 11, 1870

• The temperature on September 11, 1870 was about 17.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  • July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
  • December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, English field marshal and politician, 12th Governor General of Canada († 1935)
• 1865 » Rainis, Latvian poet and playwright († 1929)
• 1871 » Scipione Borghese, 10th Prince of Sulmona, Italian racing driver, mountaineer, and politician († 1927)
• 1876 » Stan Rowley, Australian sprinter († 1924)
• 1877 » Felix Dzerzhinsky, Polish-Russian academic and politician († 1926)
• 1877 » James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician († 1946)