Family tree fam. van Wijk » Engelbertus Johannes van Wijk (1881-????)

Birthday April 12, 1881

• The temperature on April 12, 1881 was about 8.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
  • October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist († 1911)
• 1883 » Dally Messenger, Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor († 1959)
• 1883 » Imogen Cunningham, American photographer and educator († 1976)
• 1884 » Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1884 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner († 1932)
• 1885 » Robert Delaunay, French painter († 1941)