Eijsermans family tree » Antonia Maas (1881-????)

Birthday November 17, 1881

• The temperature on November 17, 1881 was about 10.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 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.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Frank Calder, English-Canadian journalist and businessman († 1943)
• 1878 » Augustus Goessling, American swimmer and water polo player († 1963)
• 1878 » Grace Abbott, American social worker († 1939)
• 1886 » Walter Terence Stace, English-American philosopher, academic, and civil servant († 1967)
• 1887 » Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal († 1976)
• 1891 » Lester Allen, American screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director († 1949)