Descendants Dengerink of Dingerink » Johannes Overbosch (1867-????)

Birthday February 3, 1867

• The temperature on February 3, 1867 was about 2.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1857 » Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue († 1935)
• 1859 » Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 († 1935)
• 1862 » James Clark McReynolds, American lawyer and judge († 1946)
• 1867 » Charles Henry Turner, American biologist, educator and zoologist († 1923)
• 1872 » Lou Criger, American baseball player and manager († 1934)
• 1874 » Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, († 1946)