Genealogie van de families Van der Sanden en Van de Wiel » Johannes Wilhelmus Koks (1884-????)

Birthday November 23, 1884

• The temperature on November 23, 1884 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • 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.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter († 1949)
• 1886 » Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director († 1966)
• 1887 » Boris Karloff, English actor († 1969)
• 1887 » Henry Moseley, English physicist and chemist († 1915)
• 1888 » Harpo Marx, American comedian and musician († 1964)
• 1889 » Harry Sunderland, Australian-English journalist and businessman († 1964)