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Birthday January 28, 1871

• The temperature on January 28, 1871 was about -1.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1871: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
  • April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
  • May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
  • September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
  • December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1865 » Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician († 1928)
• 1873 » Colette, French novelist and journalist († 1954)
• 1873 » Monty Noble, Australian cricketer († 1940)
• 1874 » Alex Smith, Scottish golfer († 1930)
• 1875 » Julián Carrillo, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor († 1965)