Genealogy Uffels - Bergkamp en Lassche - Winter » Sjoerd Alberts Engelsman (1884-????)

Birthday November 25, 1884

• The temperature on November 25, 1884 was about -0.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author († 1960)
• 1880 » John Flynn, Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia († 1951)
• 1881 » Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic († 1958)
• 1881 » Pope John XXIII († 1963)
• 1883 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author († 1939)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist († 1943)