Stamreeks Victoria Wilhelmina Warrens » Hiltje Schuitemaker (1871-????)

Birthday January 21, 1871

• The temperature on January 21, 1871 was about -1.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
  • July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
  • July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
  • October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
  • 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

• 1867 » Ludwig Thoma, German paramedic and author († 1921)
• 1868 » Felix Hoffmann, German chemist († 1946)
• 1869 » Grigori Rasputin, Russian Mystic († 1916)
• 1871 » Olga Preobrajenska, Russian ballerina († 1962)
• 1873 » Arturo Labriola, Italian revolutionary syndicalist († 1959)
• 1874 » René-Louis Baire, French mathematician († 1932)