Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Sara Cornelia PRETORIUS (1884-????)

Birthday September 21, 1884

• The temperature on September 21, 1884 was about 18.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.

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• 1874 » Gustav Holst, English composer and educator († 1934)
• 1878 » Peter McWilliam, Scottish-English footballer and manager († 1951)
• 1882 » Geevarghese Ivanios, Indian metropolitan († 1953)
• 1884 » Dénes Kőnig, Hungarian mathematician and theorist († 1944)
• 1890 » Charles William Train, English sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient († 1965)
• 1890 » Max Immelmann, German lieutenant and pilot († 1916)