Family tree Wolf » Gerritje van Dijkhuizen (1871-????)

Birthday August 3, 1871

• The temperature on August 3, 1871 was about 24.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
  • April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
  • May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
  • June 10 » Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
  • June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
  • September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Alfred Deakin, Australian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Australia († 1919)
• 1860 » William Kennedy Dickson, French-Scottish actor, director, and producer († 1935)
• 1863 » Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author and journalist († 1922)
• 1867 » Stanley Baldwin, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1947)
• 1871 » Vernon Louis Parrington, American historian and scholar († 1929)
• 1872 » Haakon VII of Norway († 1957)