Family tree Eilander » Hendrik van Peters (1881-????)

Birthday February 13, 1881

• The temperature on February 13, 1881 was about -2.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist († 1949)
• 1880 » Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1881 » Eleanor Farjeon, Jewish-English author, poet, and playwright († 1965)
• 1883 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager († 1947)
• 1883 » Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director († 1922)
• 1884 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company († 1961)