Family tree Menting » Theodorus Johannes Klein Mentink (1869-????)

Birthday November 11, 1869

• The temperature on November 11, 1869 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • February 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
  • August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
  • August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
  • October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Alfred Hermann Fried, Austrian journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1921)
• 1866 » Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician († 1956)
• 1867 » Shrimad Rajchandra, a Jain philosopher, spiritual mentor of Mahatma Gandhi († 1901)
• 1868 » Édouard Vuillard, French painter and academic († 1940)
• 1869 » Victor Emmanuel III of Italy († 1947)
• 1872 » David I. Walsh, American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Massachusetts († 1947)