Genealogy Meeldijk » Gerrit BLANKESPOOR (1884-????)

Birthday April 5, 1884

• The temperature on April 5, 1884 was about 13.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Natalia Sedova, 2nd wife of Leon Trotsky († 1962)
• 1882 » Song Jiaoren, Chinese revolutionary († 1913)
• 1883 » Walter Huston, Canadian-American actor and singer († 1950)
• 1884 » Ion Inculeț, Bessarabian academic and politician, President of Moldova († 1940)
• 1885 » Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian composer († 1978)
• 1886 » Gotthelf Bergsträsser, German linguist († 1933)