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Birthday November 29, 1873

• The temperature on November 29, 1873 was about 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• In the year 1873: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
  • April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
  • May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
  • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
  • September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Suzan Rose Benedict, American mathematician and academic († 1942)
• 1874 » Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1874 » Francis Dodd, Welsh-English painter and academic († 1949)
• 1876 » Nellie Tayloe Ross, American educator and politician, 14th Governor of Wyoming († 1977)
• 1878 » John Derbyshire, English swimmer and water polo player († 1938)
• 1879 » Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer († 1963)