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Birthday December 1, 1870

• The temperature on December 1, 1870 was about -4.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 10 » John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
  • February 3 » The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.
  • February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
  • February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
  • 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.
  • August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania († 1943)
• 1869 » Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic († 1923)
• 1871 » Archie MacLaren, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1871 » George Howard Williams, American politician and attorney, United States Senator from Missouri († 1963)
• 1883 » Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic († 1974)
• 1884 » Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher († 1976)