Genealogy John Muijsers » Maria Catharina Brands (1881-????)

Birthday November 18, 1881

• The temperature on November 18, 1881 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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.
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect, designed the Central Sofia Market Hall († 1952)
• 1882 » Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American soprano († 1963)
• 1882 » Frances Gertrude McGill, pioneering Canadian forensic pathologist († 1959)
• 1882 » Jacques Maritain, French philosopher and author († 1973)
• 1882 » Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic († 1957)
• 1883 » Carl Vinson, American judge and politician († 1981)