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Birthday November 3, 1869

• There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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.
  • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
  • August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
  • October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
  • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
  • November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Henry George, Jr., American journalist and politician († 1916)
• 1863 » Alfred Perot, French physicist and academic († 1925)
• 1866 » Harry Staley, American baseball player († 1910)
• 1871 » Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby player and manager († 1943)
• 1875 » Emīls Dārziņš, Latvian composer and conductor († 1910)
• 1876 » Stephen Alencastre, American bishop and missionary († 1940)