Family tree Weening » Hendrik van der Sluis (1870-????)

Birthday June 3, 1870

• The temperature on June 3, 1870 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 3 » Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
  • 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.
  • 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 1 » The United States Department of Justice formally comes into existence.
  • August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright († 1905)
• 1864 » Ransom E. Olds, American businessman, founded Oldsmobile and REO Motor Car Company († 1950)
• 1865 » George V of the United Kingdom († 1936)
• 1866 » George Howells Broadhurst, English-American director and manager († 1952)
• 1873 » Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and psychobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1877 » Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator († 1953)