Family tree Fokker » Marinus Speelman (1887-????)

Birthday March 25, 1887

• The temperature on March 25, 1887 was about 4.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
  • April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
  • June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water polo player († 1920)
• 1881 » Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer († 1945)
• 1881 » Mary Webb, English author and poet († 1927)
• 1881 » Patrick Henry Bruce, American painter and educator († 1936)
• 1885 » Jimmy Seed, English international footballer, inside forward and manager († 1966)
• 1893 » Johannes Villemson, Estonian runner († 1971)