Descendants Lavarne » Berendina Gijsberta Broer (1888-????)

Birthday May 13, 1888

• The temperature on May 13, 1888 was about 16.4 °C. The air pressure was 46 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 46%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
  • August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
  • September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
  • September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
  • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)
• 1885 » Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop († 1984)
• 1887 » Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist († 1951)
• 1888 » Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist and geophysicist († 1993)