Stambomen Droste, Casand en Boogaart » Charles William van Casand (1876-????)

Birthday March 22, 1876

• The temperature on March 22, 1876 was about 2.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
  • April 22 » The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.
  • May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
  • August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
  • August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
  • September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1868 » Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1869 » Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer († 1939)
• 1873 » Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter († 1939)
• 1880 » Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach († 1960)
• 1884 » Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician († 1951)
• 1884 » Lyda Borelli, Italian actress († 1959)