Familie van Gorp, Vossen, Verdonschot » Maria Aldegonda Hanssen (1880-????)

Birthday April 27, 1880

• The temperature on April 27, 1880 was about 9.7 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
  • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
  • July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
  • September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
  • December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » Frederick Fane, Irish-born, English cricketer († 1960)
• 1880 » Mihkel Lüdig, Estonian organist, composer, and conductor († 1958)
• 1882 » Jessie Redmon Fauset, American author and poet († 1961)
• 1887 » Warren Wood, American golfer († 1926)
• 1888 » Florence La Badie, Canadian actress († 1917)
• 1891 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1953)