Family tree Van Dijk - Kuiper » Engelina van Vessem (1869-????)

Birthday April 29, 1869

• The temperature on April 29, 1869 was about 17.7 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 35%. 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.
  • April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
  • April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
  • June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1863 » Constantine P. Cavafy, Egyptian-Greek journalist and poet († 1933)
• 1863 » Maria Teresia Ledóchowska, Austrian nun and missionary († 1922)
• 1863 » William Randolph Hearst, American publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation († 1951)
• 1872 » Forest Ray Moulton, American astronomer and academic († 1952)
• 1872 » Harry Payne Whitney, American businessman and lawyer († 1930)
• 1875 » Rafael Sabatini, Italian-English novelist and short story writer († 1950)