Genealogy Spierenburg » Jacobus Wilhelmus Nicolaas Wintjens (1876-????)

Birthday January 24, 1876

• The temperature on January 24, 1876 was about 5.1 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
  • February 2 » The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.
  • February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
  • June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
  • August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
  • November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
  • November 23 » Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Jiří Karásek ze Lvovic, Czech poet, writer and literary critic († 1951)
• 1871 » Thomas Jaggar, American volcanologist († 1953)
• 1872 » Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter († 1943)
• 1872 » Morris Travers, English chemist and academic († 1961)
• 1872 » Yuly Aykhenvald, Russian literary critic († 1928)
• 1873 » Dmitry Ushakov, Russian philologist and lexicographer († 1942)