Genealogische data Golse Genen » Maria Catharina Claassens (1878-????)

Birthday February 9, 1878

• The temperature on February 9, 1878 was about -0.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Howard Taylor Ricketts, American pathologist and physician († 1910)
• 1874 » Amy Lowell, American poet, critic, and educator († 1925)
• 1876 » Arthur Edward Moore, New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland († 1963)
• 1878 » Jack Kirwan, Irish international footballer († 1959)
• 1880 » Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1959)
• 1883 » Jules Berry, French actor and director († 1951)