Family tree Homma » Johanna Folkerts Homma (1873-????)

Birthday November 30, 1873

• The temperature on November 30, 1873 was about 7.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 11 » King Amadeo I of Spain abdicates.
  • March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
  • May 23 » The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police, the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
  • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
  • August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
  • 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

• 1872 » John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier, and poet († 1918)
• 1873 » Božena Benešová, Czech author and poet († 1936)
• 1874 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, English-Canadian author and poet († 1942)
• 1874 » Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1875 » Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player († 1936)
• 1875 » Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia († 1941)