Stamboom Van Heumen - Van Bennekom » Petrus Franciscus van Amsterdam (1878-????)

Birthday December 3, 1878

• The temperature on December 3, 1878 was about 2.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • 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.
  • November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Francis A. Nixon, American businessman († 1956)
• 1879 » Albert Asher, New Zealand rugby player († 1965)
• 1879 » Charles Hutchison, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1949)
• 1879 » Donald Matheson Sutherland, Canadian physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence († 1970)
• 1879 » Kafū Nagai, Japanese author and playwright († 1959)
• 1880 » Fedor von Bock, German field marshal († 1945)