Klerken Woumen Zarren families » Arthur Jozef Degryse (1884-????)

Birthday October 16, 1884

• The temperature on October 16, 1884 was about 11.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.

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• 1881 » William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player († 1955)
• 1884 » Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor († 1916)
• 1886 » David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel († 1973)
• 1888 » Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1888 » Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling († 1979)
• 1890 » Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance († 1922)