Family tree der families Van Santvoort, Truyts, Callebaut, Cambré, Coppens, Dieltjens en aanverwanten. » Anna Elizabeth Torfs (1876-????)

Birthday December 18, 1876

• The temperature on December 18, 1876 was about 3.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
  • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
  • April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
  • May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
  • August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
  • August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Saki, British short story writer († 1916)
• 1873 » Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines († 1957)
• 1875 » Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower († 1941)
• 1878 » Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1953)
• 1879 » Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator († 1940)
• 1882 » Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway († 1950)