Family tree Hoogduin » Susanna Elisabeth Houtzamer (1867-????)

Birthday March 20, 1867

• The temperature on March 20, 1867 was about 3.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
• In the year 1867: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
  • February 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
  • March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
  • May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
  • August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
  • September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Frederick Winslow Taylor, American tennis player and engineer († 1915)
• 1856 » John Lavery, Irish painter († 1941)
• 1870 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general († 1964)
• 1874 » Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist († 1945)
• 1876 » Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist († 1927)
• 1879 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist († 1960)