The Brown Tree » Jane MCNEICE (1869-1869)

Birthday September 6, 1869

• The temperature on September 6, 1869 was about 20.9 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
  • July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
  • August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
  • September 24 » Gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
  • 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.
  • November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » William Lane, English-Australian journalist, founded New Australia († 1917)
• 1863 » Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator († 1935)
• 1868 » Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss judge and politician, President of the Swiss National Council († 1947)
• 1869 » Felix Salten, Austrian-Swiss author and critic († 1945)
• 1869 » Walford Davies, English organist and composer († 1941)
• 1876 » John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1935)