Genealogy Booij / Boy » Gerrit WILLEMSTEIN (1879-????)

Birthday September 2, 1879

• The temperature on September 2, 1879 was about 18.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 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 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 11 » The Anglo-Zulu War begins.
  • January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
  • February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
  • April 5 » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
  • April 23 » Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
  • October 22 » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13​⁄₂ hours before burning out).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Frederick Soddy, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1956)
• 1878 » Herman, Estonian-Finnish archbishop († 1961)
• 1878 » Ion Dragoumis, Greek philosopher and diplomat († 1920)
• 1878 » Werner von Blomberg, German field marshal († 1946)
• 1883 » Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria († 1963)
• 1884 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic († 1970)