Family tree Smith » Hendrik Cornelis Heezen (1874-????)

Birthday March 8, 1874

• The temperature on March 8, 1874 was about 9.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
• 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 1874: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
  • July 14 » The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
  • July 31 » Dr. Patrick Francis Healy became the first African-American inaugurated as president of a predominantly white university, Georgetown University.
  • October 9 » The Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern.
  • November 7 » A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
  • December 29 » The military coup of Gen. Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is proclaimed King of Spain.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1856 » Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army († 1929)
• 1856 » Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic († 1937)
• 1859 » Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author († 1932)
• 1865 » Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style († 1947)
• 1879 » Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)
• 1886 » Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)