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Birthday June 28, 1870

• The temperature on June 28, 1870 was about 16.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. 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.
  • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
  • October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1873 » Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1875 » Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1879 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist († 1949)
• 1880 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player († 1971)
• 1883 » Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France († 1945)