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Birthday June 28, 1873

• The temperature on June 28, 1873 was about 19.3 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
  • March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
  • June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
  • August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
  • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
  • October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1936)
• 1873 » Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1944)
• 1875 » Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1879 » Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist († 1949)
• 1880 » John Meyers, American swimmer and water polo player († 1971)
• 1883 » Pierre Laval, French soldier and politician, 101st Prime Minister of France († 1945)