Familie Doevendans » Lummetje de VRIES (1881-????)

Birthday March 20, 1881

• The temperature on March 20, 1881 was about 6.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist († 1960)
• 1882 » Harold Weber, American golfer († 1933)
• 1882 » René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France († 1962)
• 1884 » John Jensen, Australian public servant († 1970)
• 1884 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1966)
• 1885 » Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer († 1958)