Eijsermans family tree » Maria Anna Gielis (1878-????)

Birthday October 19, 1878

• The temperature on October 19, 1878 was about 11.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 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 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Bart King, American cricketer († 1965)
• 1873 » Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist († 1925)
• 1876 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian lawyer and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1941)
• 1876 » Mordecai Brown, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1945)
• 1879 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist († 1919)
• 1882 » Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor († 1916)