Genealogie ter Beek » Arendina Pannekoek (1879-????)

Birthday June 19, 1879

• The temperature on June 19, 1879 was about 18.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
  • May 2 » The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is founded in Madrid by Pablo Iglesias.
  • May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
  • June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • July 8 » Sailing ship USSJeannette departs San Francisco carrying an ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
  • August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer († 1941)
• 1876 » Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer († 1941)
• 1877 » Charles Coburn, American actor († 1961)
• 1881 » Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator († 1966)
• 1883 » Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder († 1970)
• 1884 » Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian († 1974)