Genealogy Van Golberdinge » Jan van Diest (1876-????)

Birthday August 1, 1876

• The temperature on August 1, 1876 was about 19.7 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
  • April 11 » The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
  • July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
  • September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
  • November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
  • December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1865 » Isobel Lilian Gloag, English painter († 1917)
• 1871 » John Lester, American cricketer and soccer player († 1969)
• 1877 » George Hackenschmidt, Estonian-English wrestler and strongman († 1968)
• 1878 » Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Greek physician and politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1961)
• 1881 » Otto Toeplitz, German mathematician and academic († 1940)
• 1885 » George de Hevesy, Hungarian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1966)