Arbre Chatelain » Mort-né CHATELAIN (1878-????)

Birthday July 19, 1878

• The temperature on July 19, 1878 was about 24.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
  • November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » Alice Dunbar Nelson, American poet and activist († 1935)
• 1876 » Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious leader, 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1972)
• 1877 » Arthur Fielder, English cricketer († 1949)
• 1881 » Friedrich Dessauer, German physicist and philosopher († 1963)
• 1883 » Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer († 1972)
• 1886 » Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic († 1957)