Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Johannes Petrus de Koning (1884-1886)

Birthday February 12, 1884

• The temperature on February 12, 1884 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • 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.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Walter Nash, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand († 1968)
• 1884 » Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American author († 1980)
• 1884 » Johan Laidoner, Estonian-Russian general († 1953)
• 1884 » Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter († 1957)
• 1884 » Max Beckmann, German painter and sculptor († 1950)
• 1885 » Julius Streicher, German publisher, founded Der Stürmer († 1946)