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Birthday November 8, 1869

• The temperature on November 8, 1869 was about 9.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 38 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. 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.
  • February 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
  • March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
  • May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
  • October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
  • November 6 » In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6–4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
  • December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1855 » Nikolaos Triantafyllakos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1939)
• 1866 » Herbert Austin, 1st Baron Austin, English businessman, founded the Austin Motor Company († 1941)
• 1868 » Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1878 » Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist († 1951)
• 1881 » Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter and illustrator († 1942)
• 1883 » Arnold Bax, English composer and poet († 1953)