Family tree Schackman-Arink-Tel-Keijzer » Johannes Jacobus van der Heijden (1878-????)

Birthday September 12, 1878

• The temperature on September 12, 1878 was about 12.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1875 » Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor and director († 1926)
• 1880 » H. L. Mencken, American journalist and critic († 1956)
• 1882 » Ion Agârbiceanu, Romanian journalist, politician, and archbishop († 1963)
• 1884 » Martin Klein, Estonian wrestler and coach († 1947)
• 1885 » Heinrich Hoffmann, German photographer and art dealer († 1957)