Family tree Verstraelen » Antonius Dominicus Elst (1870-????)

Birthday May 6, 1870

• The temperature on May 6, 1870 was about 12.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
  • January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
  • January 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
  • 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.
  • May 12 » The Manitoba Act is given the Royal Assent, paving the way for Manitoba to become a province of Canada on July 15.
  • July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
  • September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1868 » Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author († 1927)
• 1869 » Junnosuke Inoue, Japanese businessman and central banker, 8th and 11th Governor of the Bank of Japan († 1932)
• 1870 » Walter Rutherford, Scottish golfer († 1936)
• 1871 » Christian Morgenstern, German author and poet († 1914)
• 1871 » Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)
• 1872 » Willem de Sitter, Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer († 1934)