Genealogy Spierenburg » n.n. Marcus (1884)

Birthday September 1, 1884

• The temperature on September 1, 1884 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Didier Pitre, Canadian ice hockey player († 1934)
• 1884 » Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist († 1961)
• 1884 » Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director († 1947)
• 1886 » Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor († 1957)
• 1886 » Shigeyasu Suzuki, Japanese general († 1957)
• 1887 » Blaise Cendrars, Swiss author and poet († 1961)