Coen-Van Impe » Jozef Benedict (Jozef Benedict ) Vermoesen (1880-????)

Birthday June 23, 1880

• The temperature on June 23, 1880 was about 16.9 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1880: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
  • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
  • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
  • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
  • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1879 » Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist and journalist († 1947)
• 1884 » Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and politician († 1979)
• 1888 » Bronson M. Cutting, American publisher and politician († 1935)
• 1889 » Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet and author († 1966)
• 1889 » Verena Holmes, English engineer († 1964)