Genealogy De Geus » Maarten Hendrik STERK (1879-????)

Birthday September 1, 1879

• The temperature on September 1, 1879 was about 15.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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.
  • February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • March 29 » Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
  • May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
  • June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • October 15 » The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.
  • December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Harriet Shaw Weaver, English journalist and activist († 1961)
• 1877 » Francis William Aston, English chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1945)
• 1877 » Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player († 1949)
• 1878 » J. F. C. Fuller, English general and historian († 1966)
• 1878 » Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1942)
• 1878 » Tullio Serafin, Italian conductor and director († 1968)