Heemskerk door de eeuwen heen » Johanna Catharina Petronella Huijsen (1884-????)

Birthday November 10, 1884

• The temperature on November 10, 1884 was about 11.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

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• 1880 » Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor († 1959)
• 1884 » Zofia Nałkowska, Polish author and playwright († 1954)
• 1886 » Edward Joseph Collins, American pianist, composer, and conductor († 1951)
• 1887 » Arnold Zweig, German author and activist († 1968)
• 1887 » Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic († 1973)
• 1888 » Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company († 1972)