Family tree Hoek, van Scherpenzeel, la Verge en van de Water » Johannes Hendrikus van Olphen (1887-????)

Birthday June 11, 1887

• The temperature on June 11, 1887 was about 18.5 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
  • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
  • July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
  • November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician († 1973)
• 1881 » Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism († 1983)
• 1881 » Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter († 1963)
• 1888 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal († 1927)
• 1889 » Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete († 1976)
• 1894 » Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota († 1952)