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Birthday October 5, 1871

• The temperature on October 5, 1871 was about 14.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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.
  • February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
  • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
  • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
  • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
  • November 16 » The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1864 » Louis Lumière, French director and producer († 1948)
• 1873 » Lucien Mérignac, French fencer († 1941)
• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)