Purvis Farquhar » Jansje Hendrikse (1884-????)

Birthday April 3, 1884

• The temperature on April 3, 1884 was about 20.6 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 29%. 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 year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Philippe Desranleau, Canadian archbishop († 1952)
• 1883 » Ikki Kita, Japanese philosopher and author († 1937)
• 1885 » Allan Dwan, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1885 » Bud Fisher, American cartoonist († 1954)
• 1885 » Marie-Victorin Kirouac, Canadian botanist and academic († 1944)
• 1885 » St John Philby, English colonial and explorer († 1960)