Family tree Dullemen » Adrianus Theodorus DAMSMA (1867-????)

Birthday October 10, 1867

• The temperature on October 10, 1867 was about 7.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1864 » T. Frank Appleby, American businessman and politician († 1924)
• 1870 » Louise Mack, Australian journalist, author, and poet († 1935)
• 1872 » Dionysios Kasdaglis, Egyptian-Greek tennis player († 1931)
• 1877 » William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, English businessman and philanthropist, founded Morris Motors († 1963)