Family tree Van Leeuwen » Everardus Marinus van Leeuwen (1881-????)

Birthday June 7, 1881

• The temperature on June 7, 1881 was about 11.3 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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 year 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Roelof Klein, Dutch-American rower and engineer († 1960)
• 1879 » Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1963)
• 1879 » Knud Rasmussen, Danish anthropologist and explorer († 1933)
• 1883 » Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and scholar († 1948)
• 1884 » Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect († 1931)
• 1886 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 († 1972)