Dreyer Tree » Elizabeth Wilhelmina Barry (1878-????)

Birthday July 5, 1878

• The temperature on July 5, 1878 was about 19.1 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
  • 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

• 1874 » Eugen Fischer, German physician and academic († 1967)
• 1879 » Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player and politician, 49th United States Secretary of War († 1945)
• 1879 » Wanda Landowska, Polish-French harpsichord player and educator († 1959)
• 1880 » Constantin Tănase, Romanian actor and playwright († 1945)
• 1880 » Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer († 1940)
• 1882 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator († 1927)