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Born on Friday April 28, 1876
Died on Friday April 28, 1876

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 28, 1876 at Delpher


Born on April 28
  • 1865 » Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist and academic († 1940)
  • 1868 » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic († 1908)
  • 1868 » Lucy Booth, English composer († 1953)
  • 1874 » Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author († 1936)
  • 1874 » Sidney Toler, American actor and director († 1947)
  • 1876 » Nicola Romeo, Italian engineer and businessman († 1938)
  • 1878 » Lionel Barrymore, American actor and director († 1954)
  • 1886 » Art Shaw, American hurdler († 1955)
  • 1886 » Erich Salomon, German-born news photographer († 1944)
  • 1888 » Walter Tull, English footballer and soldier († 1918)

Died on April 28

Names that were popular for boys in 1876
  1. Jan
  2. Johannes
  3. Cornelis
  4. Hendrik
  5. Willem
  6. Pieter
  7. Gerrit
  8. Jacob
  9. Petrus
  10. Jacobus
  11. Adrianus
  12. Dirk
  13. Arie
  14. Hendrikus
  15. Gerardus
  16. Klaas
Names that were popular for girls in 1876
  1. Maria
  2. Johanna
  3. Anna
  4. Cornelia
  5. Adriana
  6. Elisabeth
  7. Catharina
  8. Hendrika
  9. Wilhelmina
  10. Grietje
  11. Aaltje
  12. Neeltje
  13. Trijntje
  14. Antje
  15. Petronella
  16. Jacoba

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1876
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
  • April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
  • April 22 » The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.
  • June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
  • August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
  • November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
Weather April 28, 1876

The temperature on April 28, 1876 was about 10.8 °C. There was 12 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%.

Source: KNMI