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Birthday June 7, 1870

• The temperature on June 7, 1870 was about 21.0 °C. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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 23 » In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in what becomes known as the Marias Massacre.
  • 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.
  • March 16 » The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
  • August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
  • September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
  • September 19 » Franco-Prussian War: The siege of Paris begins. The city will hold out for over four months before surrendering.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1861 » Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist († 1942)
• 1862 » Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1947)
• 1863 » Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1868 » Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish painter and architect († 1928)
• 1877 » Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer († 1960)
• 1879 » Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer († 1933)