Family tree Van Rijn » Jan Harminus Boon (1884-????)

Birthday April 15, 1884

• The temperature on April 15, 1884 was about 9.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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 year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
  • October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet († 1980)
• 1883 » Stanley Bruce, Australian captain and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Australia († 1967)
• 1885 » Tadeusz Kutrzeba, Polish general († 1947)
• 1886 » Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet and critic († 1921)
• 1887 » William Forgan Smith, Scottish-Australian politician, 24th Premier of Queensland († 1953)
• 1888 » Maximilian Kronberger, German poet and author († 1904)