Descendants Lavarne » Aaltjen Klijn Velderman (1878-????)

Birthday October 22, 1878

• The temperature on October 22, 1878 was about 12.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 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 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.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
  • November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » David van Embden, Dutch economist and politician († 1962)
• 1878 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1967)
• 1881 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1881 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist († 1908)
• 1882 » Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator († 1953)
• 1882 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator († 1945)