Family tree Jacob de Bie » Hubrecht van der Werff (1884-????)

Birthday November 30, 1884

• The temperature on November 30, 1884 was about -3.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Gustav Suits, Estonian-Swedish poet and politician († 1956)
• 1887 » Andrej Gosar, Slovenian economist, lawyer, and politician († 1970)
• 1887 » Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer and diver († 1971)
• 1888 » Harry Altham, English cricketer and coach († 1965)
• 1889 » Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1977)
• 1889 » Reuvein Margolies, Ukrainian-Israeli author and scholar († 1971)