Borgsteede family tree » Pieter Jan van der Laarse (1873-????)

Birthday November 1, 1873

• The temperature on November 1, 1873 was about 9.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 10 » The first Azerbaijani play "The Adventures of the Vizier of the Khan of Lenkaran" prepared by Akhundov was performed by Hassan-bey Zardabi and dramatist and Najaf-bey Vezirov.
  • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
  • 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 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
  • September 15 » Franco-Prussian War: The last Imperial German Army troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Stephen Crane, American poet, novelist, and short story writer († 1900)
• 1872 » Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter († 1946)
• 1877 » Roger Quilter, English composer († 1953)
• 1878 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1878 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator († 1925)
• 1880 » Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright († 1957)