Genealogy Kloos » Leendert van der Ent (1876-????)

Birthday May 9, 1876

• The temperature on May 9, 1876 was about 12.2 °C. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 31%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
  • February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
  • April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
  • April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
  • July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
  • November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Harry Vardon, British golfer († 1937)
• 1873 » Anton Cermak, Czech-American captain and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago († 1933)
• 1874 » Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian († 1939)
• 1882 » George Barker, American painter († 1965)
• 1882 » Henry J. Kaiser, American shipbuilder and businessman, founded Kaiser Shipyards († 1967)
• 1883 » José Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher, author, and critic († 1955)