Family tree De Duffelt » Kind "1870 +" van Kleef (1870-1870)

Birthday September 5, 1870

• The temperature on September 5, 1870 was about 15.8 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 3 » Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
  • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
  • August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
  • October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Amy Beach, American pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1871 » Friedrich Akel, Estonian physician and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d 1941)
• 1872 » Horace Rice, Australian tennis player († 1950)
• 1872 » V. O. Chidambaram Pillai, Indian lawyer and politician († 1936)
• 1873 » Cornelius Vanderbilt III, American general and engineer († 1942)
• 1874 » Nap Lajoie, American baseball player and manager († 1959)