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Birthday January 24, 1870

• The temperature on January 24, 1870 was about 0.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
  • November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Herbert Kilpin, English footballer († 1916)
• 1871 » Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Czech poet, writer and literary critic († 1951)
• 1871 » Thomas Jaggar, American volcanologist († 1953)
• 1872 » Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter († 1943)
• 1872 » Morris Travers, English chemist and academic († 1961)
• 1872 » Yuly Aykhenvald, Russian literary critic († 1928)