Genealogy Van der Wouw » N.N. van Herwijnen (1884)

Birthday December 18, 1884

• The temperature on December 18, 1884 was about 5.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • 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.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway († 1950)
• 1884 » Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology († 1942)
• 1886 » Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager († 1961)
• 1887 » Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright († 1971)
• 1888 » Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer († 1971)
• 1888 » Robert Moses, American urban planner († 1981)