Genealogy Kaas » Dirk Barten (1878-> 1950)

Birthday March 29, 1878

• The temperature on March 29, 1878 was about 2.7 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Tom Hayward, English cricketer († 1939)
• 1872 » Hal Colebatch, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Western Australia († 1953)
• 1873 » Tullio Levi-Civita, Jewish-Italian mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1874 » Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States († 1944)
• 1876 » Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player († 1908)
• 1884 » Ed Archibald, Canadian pole vaulter († 1965)