Genealogy Meeldijk » Gerhard VONS (1881-????)

Birthday March 24, 1881

• The temperature on March 24, 1881 was about 8.8 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer († 1953)
• 1882 » George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand († 1943)
• 1882 » Marcel Lalu, French gymnast († 1951)
• 1883 » Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer († 1945)
• 1884 » Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist († 1968)
• 1884 » Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)