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Birthday July 7, 1870

• The temperature on July 7, 1870 was about 14.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 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.
  • July 1 » The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
  • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
  • September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
  • October 2 » A plebiscite held in Rome, supports annexation of city of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer and conductor († 1911)
• 1861 » Nettie Stevens, American geneticist († 1912)
• 1869 » Fernande Sadler (d.1949), French painter and mayor
• 1869 » Rachel Caroline Eaton, American academic († 1938)
• 1874 » Erwin Bumke, German lawyer and jurist († 1945)
• 1880 » Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread († 1960)