Family tree Farjon in Nederland » Jurriaan Frederik van den Berg (1873-????)

Birthday July 22, 1873

• The temperature on July 22, 1873 was about 23.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 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.
  • April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
  • May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
  • June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
  • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1862 » Cosmo Duff-Gordon, Scottish fencer († 1931)
• 1863 » Alec Hearne, English cricketer († 1952)
• 1878 » Janusz Korczak, Polish pediatrician and author († 1942)
• 1881 » Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology († 1966)
• 1882 » Edward Hopper, American painter and etcher († 1967)
• 1884 » Odell Shepard, American poet and politician, 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut († 1967)