Family tree Van der Waal » jan pietersz van der MERWE (1870-????)

Birthday June 19, 1870

• The temperature on June 19, 1870 was about 23.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
  • March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
  • July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
  • September 6 » Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
  • September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
  • October 2 » A plebiscite held in Rome, supports annexation of city of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy.
  • October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » May Whitty, English actress († 1948)
• 1871 » Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician († 1932)
• 1872 » Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist († 1963)
• 1874 » Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer († 1941)
• 1876 » Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer († 1941)
• 1877 » Charles Coburn, American actor († 1961)