Family tree Karsten » Wybe Canrinus (1881-????)

Birthday July 17, 1881

• The temperature on July 17, 1881 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player († 1939)
• 1871 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator († 1956)
• 1879 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 1960)
• 1882 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset († 1949)
• 1888 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1889 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author († 1970)