Hjort family tree » Carl Johan Andersen (1878-????)

Birthday November 25, 1878

• The temperature on November 25, 1878 was about 9.4 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
  • June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1876 » Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha († 1936)
• 1877 » Harley Granville-Barker, British actor, director and playwright († 1946)
• 1880 » Elsie J. Oxenham, English author († 1960)
• 1880 » John Flynn, Australian minister and pilot, founded the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia († 1951)
• 1881 » Jacob Fichman, Romanian-Israeli poet and critic († 1958)
• 1881 » Pope John XXIII († 1963)