Genealogy Kuijken-Dikschei » Anna Maria Cornelia van LUNENBURG (1884-????)

Birthday November 22, 1884

• The temperature on November 22, 1884 was about -2.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

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• 1877 » Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet († 1919)
• 1877 » Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona († 1930)
• 1881 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician († 1922)
• 1884 » C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur († 1926)
• 1884 » Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar († 1953)
• 1890 » Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician, 18th President of France († 1970)