Genealogy Mostert » DOODGEBOREN DOCHTER van SPRONSEN (1884-1884)

Birthday January 10, 1884

• The temperature on January 10, 1884 was about 4.8 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » John McLean, American hurdler, football player, and coach († 1955)
• 1880 » Manuel Azaña, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of Spain († 1940)
• 1883 » Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet († 1945)
• 1883 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1966)
• 1887 » Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher († 1962)
• 1890 » Pina Menichelli, Italian actress († 1984)