Family tree Hegeman » Anna Helena ten Berge (1884-????)

Birthday July 3, 1884

• The temperature on July 3, 1884 was about 28.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 43%. 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.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • 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.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Alfred Korzybski, Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher († 1950)
• 1880 » Carl Schuricht, Polish-German conductor († 1967)
• 1883 » Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian author († 1924)
• 1886 » Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines († 1969)
• 1888 » Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Spanish author and playwright († 1963)
• 1889 » Richard Cramer, American actor († 1960)