Family tree Blockmans » Jan Engelbert Blockmans (1881-????)

Birthday September 22, 1881

• The temperature on September 22, 1881 was about 13.3 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
  • September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese politician and diplomat, 51st Prime Minister of Japan († 1967)
• 1880 » Christabel Pankhurst, English activist, co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union († 1958)
• 1882 » Wilhelm Keitel, German field marshal († 1946)
• 1883 » Ferenc Oslay, Hungarian-Slovene historian and author († 1932)
• 1883 » Frank George Woollard, English engineer († 1957)
• 1885 » Gunnar Asplund, Swedish architect and academic, designed the Stockholm Public Library († 1940)