Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Catharina Helena Bijl (1878-????)

Birthday April 19, 1878

• The temperature on April 19, 1878 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
  • May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.

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• 1873 » Sydney Barnes, English cricketer († 1967)
• 1874 » Ernst Rüdin, Swiss psychiatrist, geneticist, and eugenicist († 1952)
• 1877 » Ole Evinrude, Norwegian-American engineer, invented the outboard motor († 1934)
• 1879 » Arthur Robertson, Scottish runner († 1957)
• 1882 » Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 14th President of Brazil († 1954)
• 1883 » Henry Jameson, American soccer player († 1938)