FutureHistory » Maria Celestina van Hoof (1881-????)

Birthday June 25, 1881

• The temperature on June 25, 1881 was about 18.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
  • June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » Rose O'Neill, American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer († 1944)
• 1884 » Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-French art collector and historian († 1979)
• 1884 » Géza Gyóni, Hungarian soldier and poet († 1917)
• 1886 » Henry H. Arnold, American general († 1950)
• 1887 » Frigyes Karinthy, Hungarian author, poet, and journalist († 1938)
• 1887 » George Abbott, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1995)