Het Grote Driessen Boek » Adrina Hillegonda Elizabeth Driessen (1876-1876)

Birthday October 8, 1876

• The temperature on October 8, 1876 was about 15.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
  • February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
  • February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
  • April 22 » The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.
  • May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
  • December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Alexey Shchusev, Russian architect and academic, designed Lenin's Mausoleum († 1949)
• 1873 » Ejnar Hertzsprung, Danish chemist and astronomer († 1967)
• 1875 » Laurence Doherty, English tennis player and golfer († 1919)
• 1876 » Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell, English lieutenant and politician († 1966)
• 1877 » Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter († 1968)
• 1879 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor († 1956)