Family tree Kuijer, Blaricum » Jacobus Johannes de Kuijer (1878-????)

Birthday September 29, 1878

• The temperature on September 29, 1878 was about 14.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1866 » Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, Ukrainian historian, academic, and politician († 1934)
• 1876 » Charlie Llewellyn, South African cricketer († 1964)
• 1880 » Liberato Pinto, Portuguese colonel and politician, 79th Prime Minister of Portugal († 1949)
• 1881 » Ludwig von Mises, Austrian-American economist, sociologist, and philosopher († 1973)
• 1882 » Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician († 1937)
• 1885 » George Scott, English footballer († 1916)