In Cruce Salus » Adrianus Engelbertus Gerardus Heine (1882-????)

Birthday February 13, 1882

• The temperature on February 13, 1882 was about 8.0 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 1882: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
  • April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
  • July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
  • September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
  • December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1880 » Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1881 » Eleanor Farjeon, Jewish-English author, poet, and playwright († 1965)
• 1883 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager († 1947)
• 1883 » Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director († 1922)
• 1884 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company († 1961)