Family tree Van Koert » Anna Hendrina Elisabeth Smeltzer (1888-????)

Birthday January 27, 1888

• The temperature on January 27, 1888 was about 4.9 °C. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
  • May 13 » With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
  • December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Jerome Kern, American composer and songwriter († 1945)
• 1885 » Seison Maeda, Japanese painter († 1977)
• 1886 » Radhabinod Pal, Indian academic and jurist († 1967)
• 1889 » Balthasar van der Pol, Dutch physicist and academic († 1959)
• 1891 » Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian journalist and author († 1967)
• 1893 » Soong Ching-ling, Chinese politician, Honorary President of the People's Republic of China († 1981)