Eijsermans family tree » Adriana Maria Schellekens (1877-????)

Birthday February 4, 1877

• The temperature on February 4, 1877 was about 7.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Just two days before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the 1876 U.S. presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.
  • April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
  • July 21 » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
  • October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
  • November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
  • December 10 » Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.

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• 1872 » Gotse Delchev, Bulgarian and Macedonian revolutionary activist († 1903)
• 1873 » Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian shot putter and discus thrower († 1905)
• 1875 » Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer († 1953)
• 1877 » Eddie Cochems, American football player and coach († 1953)
• 1881 » Eulalio Gutiérrez, Mexican general and politician, President of Mexico († 1939)
• 1881 » Fernand Léger, French painter and sculptor († 1955)