Genealogy Mostert » PIETER GERRIT van der LUGT (1878-????)

Birthday June 13, 1878

• The temperature on June 13, 1878 was about 14.6 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1872 » Thomas N. Heffron, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1951)
• 1873 » Karin Swanström, Swedish actress, director, and producer († 1942)
• 1875 » Paul Neumann, Austrian swimmer and physician († 1932)
• 1876 » William Sealy Gosset, English chemist and statistician († 1937)
• 1879 » Charalambos Tseroulis, Greek general and politician, Greek Minister for Military Affairs († 1929)
• 1879 » Heinrich Gutkin, Estonian businessman and politician († 1941)