Family tree Terheerd - Buurman » Gerdinus Staal (1878-????)

Birthday November 23, 1878

• The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1871 » William Watt, Australian accountant and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria († 1946)
• 1875 » Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian journalist and politician († 1933)
• 1876 » Manuel de Falla, Spanish pianist and composer († 1946)
• 1878 » Frank Pick, English lawyer and businessman († 1941)
• 1883 » José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter († 1949)
• 1886 » Eduards Smiļģis, Latvian actor and director († 1966)