Genealogy Fias Kanne » Joseph Hubert Schiepers (1887-????)

Birthday July 8, 1887

• The temperature on July 8, 1887 was about 21.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
  • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
  • July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
  • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
  • October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1885 » Ernst Bloch, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1977)
• 1885 » Hugo Boss, German fashion designer, founded Hugo Boss († 1948)
• 1890 » Stanton Macdonald-Wright, American painter († 1973)
• 1892 » Pavel Korin, Russian painter († 1967)
• 1892 » Richard Aldington, English author and poet († 1962)