Olson's Tree » Charles Milton Alden (1853-1927)

Day of marriage October 11, 1877

• The temperature on October 11, 1877 was about 11.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• 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 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The last day of the Constantinople Conference results in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
  • February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
  • May 6 » Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Lakota surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
  • July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
  • October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
  • November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.

Day of death May 13, 1927

• The temperature on May 13, 1927 was between 0.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
  • January 7 » The first transatlantic telephone service is established from New York City to London.
  • April 7 » The first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
  • June 29 » The Bird of Paradise, a U.S. Army Air Corps Fokker tri-motor, completes the first transpacific flight, from the mainland United States to Hawaii.
  • July 15 » Massacre of July 15, 1927: Eighty-nine protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
  • August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
  • December 3 » Putting Pants on Philip, the first Laurel and Hardy film, is released.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1916 » Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author and playwright (b. 1859)
• 1921 » Jean Aicard, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1848)
• 1926 » Libert H. Boeynaems, Belgian-American bishop (b. 1857)
• 1929 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine (b. 1878)
• 1930 » Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
• 1938 » Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)