Eijsermans family tree » Johannes Jans ten Hoeve (1884-????)

Birthday October 5, 1884

• The temperature on October 5, 1884 was about 12.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 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)
• 1885 » Ida Rubinstein, Russian ballerina and actress († 1960)
• 1887 » Manny Ziener, German actress († 1972)
• 1887 » René Cassin, French judge and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)