Family tree Jacobs » Maria Cornelia van Eijck (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.
  • January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
  • March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
  • March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
  • May 29 » The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 ("the Compromise") is born through Act 12, which establishes the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  • June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
  • November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.

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)