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Birthday May 20, 1873

• The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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.
  • April 13 » The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 black men are murdered, takes place.
  • 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 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
  • August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
  • September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.

Day of marriage May 6, 1903

• The temperature on May 6, 1903 was between 9.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (49%). Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
  • July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
  • August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
  • September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
  • October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
  • December 14 » The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, zymologist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1917)
• 1875 » Hendrik Offerhaus, Dutch rower († 1953)
• 1877 » Pat Leahy, Irish-American jumper († 1927)
• 1879 » Hans Meerwein, German chemist († 1965)
• 1882 » Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1883 » Faisal I of Iraq († 1933)