Genealogy Bovenschen, Looijenga, Van Gelderen en Van Donk » Joannes Jacobus Ketting (1876-????)

Birthday February 9, 1876

• The temperature on February 9, 1876 was about -8.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
  • April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
  • May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
  • June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
  • August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
  • August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician († 1910)
• 1874 » Amy Lowell, American poet, critic, and educator († 1925)
• 1876 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland († 1963)
• 1878 » Jack Kirwan, Irish international footballer († 1959)
• 1880 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1959)
• 1883 » Jules Berry, French actor and director († 1951)