Family tree Seelemeijer » Berendina Sophia Mans (1883-????)

Birthday September 18, 1883

• The temperature on September 18, 1883 was about 18.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
  • March 20 » The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
  • May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
  • May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
  • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1883 » Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, English composer, painter, and author († 1950)
• 1885 » Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Azerbaijani composer, conductor, and playwright († 1948)
• 1888 » Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author († 1938)
• 1888 » Toni Wolff, Swiss psychologist and author († 1953)
• 1889 » Doris Blackburn, Australian activist and politician († 1970)