Genealogy De Vos-Verschuur » Antonie van de Lagemaat (1867-????)

Birthday October 28, 1867

• The temperature on October 28, 1867 was about 9.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
  • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
  • July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1860 » Kanō Jigorō, Japanese martial artist († 1938)
• 1864 » Adolfo Camarillo, Mexican-American rancher and philanthropist († 1958)
• 1867 » Sister Nivedita, Irish-Indian nurse, author, and educator († 1911)
• 1875 » Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, Turkish-Canadian journalist († 1966)
• 1877 » Joe Adams, American baseball player and manager († 1952)
• 1879 » Channing H. Cox, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Massachusetts († 1968)