Family tree van Frances Vraets en Guus Roijen » Willem Gerard Joseph Straatman (1884-????)

Birthday January 30, 1884

• The temperature on January 30, 1884 was about 11.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
  • July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
  • August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
  • December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1882 » Franklin D. Roosevelt, American lawyer and politician, 32nd President of the United States († 1945)
• 1889 » Jaishankar Prasad, Indian poet and playwright († 1937)
• 1899 » Max Theiler, South African-American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress († 1969)
• 1901 » Rudolf Caracciola, German race car driver († 1959)