Genealogy Wylie » Rhoda Elizabeth Smith Gibson (1871-????)

Birthday September 27, 1871

• The temperature on September 27, 1871 was about 11.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • January 3 » In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat.
  • March 22 » In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
  • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
  • July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
  • September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
  • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1871 » Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1879 » Cyril Scott, English poet and composer († 1970)
• 1879 » Frederick Schule, American hurdler and coach († 1962)
• 1879 » Hans Hahn, Austrian mathematician and philosopher († 1934)