Genealogy Petroucic » João da Rocha Campos (1881-????)

Birthday April 12, 1881

• The temperature on April 12, 1881 was about 8.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist († 1911)
• 1883 » Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor († 1959)
• 1883 » Imogen Cunningham, American photographer and educator († 1976)
• 1884 » Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1884 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner († 1932)
• 1885 » Robert Delaunay, French painter († 1941)