Family tree Pel-Stam » Maria Margaretha van Buren (1871-????)

Birthday November 12, 1871

• The temperature on November 12, 1871 was about 2.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. 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 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 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
  • March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
  • April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
  • April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
  • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
  • December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China († 1925)
• 1872 » William Fay, Irish actor and producer († 1947)
• 1881 » Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal († 1954)
• 1881 » Olev Siinmaa, Estonian-Swedish architect († 1948)
• 1886 » Ben Travers, English author and playwright († 1980)
• 1886 » Günther Dyhrenfurth, German geologist and mountaineer († 1975)