Database Van Broekhoven » Maria Johanna Schapendonk (1881-????)

Birthday August 14, 1881

• The temperature on August 14, 1881 was about 12.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1881 » Francis Ford, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)
• 1883 » Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic († 1941)
• 1886 » Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic († 1950)