Genealogy Wylie » John William Gray (1881-1881)

Birthday March 9, 1881

• The temperature on March 9, 1881 was about 8.8 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
  • November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and physician († 1976)
• 1890 » Rupert Balfe, Australian footballer and lieutenant († 1915)
• 1890 » Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician and diplomat, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1986)
• 1891 » José P. Laurel, Filipino lawyer, politician and President of the Philippines († 1959)
• 1892 » Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian politician († 1971)
• 1892 » Vita Sackville-West, English author, poet, and gardener († 1962)