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Birthday January 10, 1873

• The temperature on January 10, 1873 was about 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
  • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  • July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
  • August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
  • October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
  • November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Algernon Maudslay, English sailor († 1948)
• 1873 » George Orton, Canadian runner and hurdler († 1958)
• 1873 » Jack O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player († 1935)
• 1875 » Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1877 » Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1878 » John McLean, American hurdler, football player, and coach († 1955)