Family tree Willems-Gabriels » Andreas Hubertus Jacobus verstegen (1881-????)

Birthday April 21, 1881

• The temperature on April 21, 1881 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » Vincent Scotto, French actor and composer († 1952)
• 1882 » Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
• 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
• 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)