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Birthday August 18, 1871

• The temperature on August 18, 1871 was about 19.5 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 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.
  • 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 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
  • December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop and missionary († 1926)
• 1863 » Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter († 1930)
• 1869 » Carl Rungius, German-American painter and educator († 1959)
• 1870 » Lavr Kornilov, Russian general and explorer († 1918)
• 1879 » Alexander Rodzyanko, Russian general († 1970)
• 1885 » Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and critic († 1964)