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Birthday January 11, 1870

• The temperature on January 11, 1870 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
  • 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.
  • February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
  • July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
  • October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
  • November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Edward B. Titchener, English psychologist and academic († 1927)
• 1868 » Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician († 1940)
• 1870 » Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor and educator († 1945)
• 1872 » G. W. Pierce, American physicist and academic († 1956)
• 1873 » John Callan O'Laughlin, American soldier and journalist († 1949)
• 1875 » Reinhold Glière, Russian composer and academic († 1956)