Familie Doevendans » Bartha MASTENBROEK (1887-????)

Birthday December 19, 1887

• The temperature on December 19, 1887 was about 1.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
  • May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
  • June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
  • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

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• 1876 » Bernard Friedberg, Austrian-Israeli scholar and author († 1961)
• 1884 » Antonín Zápotocký, Czech politician, President of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic († 1957)
• 1888 » Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor († 1963)
• 1891 » Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile of Poland († 1993)
• 1894 » Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman († 1978)
• 1895 » Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator († 1989)