Genealogy De Geus » levenloos geboren kind GEENE (1884-1884)

Birthday November 1, 1884

• The temperature on November 1, 1884 was about 5.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

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• 1880 » Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet († 1954)
• 1880 » Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright († 1957)
• 1881 » Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral († 1965)
• 1886 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet († 1951)
• 1886 » Sakutarō Hagiwara, Japanese poet and critic († 1942)
• 1887 » L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator († 1976)