Genealogy Wylie » Sarah Josephine Colvin (1884-????)

Birthday July 5, 1884

• The temperature on July 5, 1884 was about 25.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • 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.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Inayat Khan, Indian mystic and educator († 1927)
• 1883 » Gustave Lanctot, Canadian historian, author, and academic († 1975)
• 1884 » Enrico Dante, Italian cardinal († 1967)
• 1885 » André Lhote, French sculptor and painter († 1962)
• 1885 » Blas Infante, Spanish historian and politician († 1936)
• 1886 » Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) († 1988)