Family tree Kueter » Gerhard Paul SOPPE (1879-1939)

Birthday September 20, 1879

• The temperature on September 20, 1879 was about 15.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• 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 1879: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 22 » The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
  • January 25 » The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
  • April 23 » Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
  • May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
  • June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
  • August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1878 » Francisco Lagos Cházaro, acting president of Mexico (1915) († 1932)
• 1878 » Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist († 1968)
• 1880 » Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, musicologist and critic († 1968)
• 1884 » Maxwell Perkins, American editor († 1947)