Lalock Family tree » Theresia "Katie" WELZ (1878-± 1879)

Birthday February 25, 1878

• The temperature on February 25, 1878 was about 7.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Enrico Caruso, Italian-American tenor; the most popular operatic tenor of the early 20th century and the first great recording star. († 1921)
• 1877 » Erich von Hornbostel, Austrian musicologist and scholar († 1935)
• 1881 » Alexei Rykov, Russian politician, Premier of Russia († 1938)
• 1881 » William Z. Foster, American union leader and politician († 1961)
• 1883 » Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone († 1981)
• 1885 » Princess Alice of Battenberg, mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh († 1969)