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Birthday May 28, 1871

• The temperature on May 28, 1871 was about 25.7 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 35%. 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.
  • March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
  • April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
  • July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
  • August 29 » Emperor Meiji orders the abolition of the han system and the establishment of prefectures as local centers of administration. (Traditional Japanese date: July 14, 1871).
  • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
  • October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".

Source: Wikipedia

• 1858 » Carl Richard Nyberg, Swedish inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch († 1939)
• 1872 » Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist and mountaineer († 1917)
• 1878 » Paul Pelliot, French sinologist and explorer († 1945)
• 1879 » Milutin Milanković, Serbian mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist († 1958)
• 1883 » Clough Williams-Ellis, English-Welsh architect, designed the Portmeirion Village († 1978)
• 1883 » Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian poet and politician († 1966)