Wernke family tree » Auke van Slooten (1881-????)

Birthday November 15, 1881

• The temperature on November 15, 1881 was about 11.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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).
  • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • 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).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Lewis Stone, American actor († 1953)
• 1881 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author († 1960)
• 1882 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist († 1965)
• 1886 » René Guénon, French-Egyptian philosopher and author († 1951)
• 1887 » Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter and educator († 1986)
• 1887 » Marianne Moore, American poet, critic, and translator († 1972)