Genealogie ter Beek » Everdina Vijge 9 (1872-????)

Birthday March 22, 1872

• The temperature on March 22, 1872 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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 January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
• From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• In the year 1872: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
  • March 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
  • March 22 » Illinois becomes the first state to require gender equality in employment.
  • May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
  • November 29 » American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
  • December 9 » In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first African-American governor of a U.S. state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire († 1913)
• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)
• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)