Eijsermans family tree » Maria Elisabeth Johanna van Beckhoven (1880-????)

Birthday October 5, 1880

• The temperature on October 5, 1880 was about 18.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
  • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
  • June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
  • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
  • July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
  • September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Mike O'Neill, Irish-American baseball player and manager († 1959)
• 1878 » Louise Dresser, American actress († 1965)
• 1879 » Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1882 » Robert H. Goddard, American physicist, engineer, and academic († 1945)
• 1883 » Ernst Pittschau, German actor († 1951)
• 1885 » Arunachalam Mahadeva, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat († 1969)