Family tree Brouwer - Koster » Theodorus Henricus Leeman (1886-????)

Birthday April 30, 1886

• The temperature on April 30, 1886 was about 5.0 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 1886: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
  • May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
  • June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
  • June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
  • July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
  • November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Charles Exeter Devereux Crombie, Scottish cartoonist († 1967)
• 1883 » Jaroslav Hašek, Czech soldier and author († 1923)
• 1883 » Luigi Russolo, Italian painter and composer († 1947)
• 1884 » Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor († 1965)
• 1888 » John Crowe Ransom, American poet, critic, and academic († 1974)
• 1893 » Harold Breen, Australian public servant († 1966)