Eijsermans family tree » Elisabeth Cornelia Bergmans (1877-????)

Birthday July 9, 1877

• The temperature on July 9, 1877 was about 16.5 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
  • 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.
  • November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
  • November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1867 » Georges Lecomte, French author and playwright († 1958)
• 1879 » Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician and parasitologist († 1934)
• 1879 » Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor († 1936)
• 1887 » James Ormsbee Chapin, American-Canadian painter and illustrator († 1975)
• 1887 » Samuel Eliot Morison, American admiral and historian († 1976)
• 1887 » Saturnino Herrán, Mexican painter († 1918)