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Birthday November 9, 1870

• The temperature on November 9, 1870 was about 3.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
  • 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.
  • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
  • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
  • October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1869 » Marie Dressler, Canadian-American actress and singer († 1934)
• 1871 » Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist († 1953)
• 1872 » Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian author and poet († 1941)
• 1873 » Otfrid Foerster, German neurologist and surgeon († 1941)
• 1874 » Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic († 1954)
• 1877 » Enrico De Nicola, Italian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 1st President of the Italian Republic († 1959)