Eijsermans family tree » Peter Jan Lommers (1881-????)

Birthday December 1, 1881

• The temperature on December 1, 1881 was about 4.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » Archie MacLaren, English cricketer († 1944)
• 1871 » George Howard Williams, American politician and attorney, United States Senator from Missouri († 1963)
• 1883 » Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic († 1974)
• 1884 » Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher († 1976)
• 1886 » Rex Stout, American detective novelist († 1975)
• 1886 » Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China († 1976)