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Birthday January 24, 1873

• The temperature on January 24, 1873 was about 3.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
  • 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.
  • March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
  • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
  • August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
  • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Czech poet, writer and literary critic († 1951)
• 1871 » Thomas Jaggar, American volcanologist († 1953)
• 1872 » Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter († 1943)
• 1872 » Morris Travers, English chemist and academic († 1961)
• 1872 » Yuly Aykhenvald, Russian literary critic († 1928)
• 1873 » Dmitry Ushakov, Russian philologist and lexicographer († 1942)