Eijsermans family tree » Catharina Johanna Kamp (1867-????)

Birthday April 21, 1867

• The temperature on April 21, 1867 was about 11.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 52 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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 June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
  • October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
  • December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1854 » William Stang, German-American bishop († 1907)
• 1864 » Max Weber, German economist and sociologist († 1920)
• 1868 » Alfred Henry Maurer, American painter († 1932)
• 1870 » Edwin Stanton Porter, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1941)
• 1874 » Vincent Scotto, French actor and composer († 1952)
• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)