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Birthday November 18, 1871

• The temperature on November 18, 1871 was about 5.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
  • July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
  • September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
  • October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
  • 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

• 1860 » Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland († 1941)
• 1861 » Dorothy Dix, American journalist and author († 1951)
• 1866 » Henry Daglish, Australian politician, 6th Premier of Western Australia († 1920)
• 1874 » Clarence Day, American author and poet († 1935)
• 1876 » Victor Hémery, French race car driver († 1950)
• 1880 » Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall († 1952)