McMahon/Trahan Family Tree » Jean-Baptiste Granger (1880-1967)

Birthday September 3, 1880

• The temperature on September 3, 1880 was about 25.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
  • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
  • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
  • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
  • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
  • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1869 » Fritz Pregl, Slovenian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1930)
• 1875 » Ferdinand Porsche, Austrian-German engineer and businessman, founded Porsche († 1951)
• 1878 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player († 1960)
• 1882 » Johnny Douglas, English cricketer and boxer († 1930)
• 1887 » Frank Christian, American trumpet player († 1973)
• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)