Buitekant & Scheffer Family Tree » Mary E. Oakes (1867-????)

Birthday October 30, 1867

• The temperature on October 30, 1867 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Georges Gilles de la Tourette, French-Swiss physician and neurologist († 1904)
• 1861 » Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter († 1929)
• 1871 » Buck Freeman, American baseball player († 1949)
• 1871 » Paul Valéry, French poet and philosopher († 1945)
• 1873 » Francisco I. Madero, Mexican businessman and politician, 33rd President of Mexico († 1913)
• 1877 » Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia († 1941)