Family tree Van Dijk » Anna Maria Elisabeth Pals (1877-????)

Birthday November 30, 1877

• The temperature on November 30, 1877 was about 4.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 74 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)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• 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 year 1877: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
  • May 9 » A magnitude 8.8 earthquake off the coast of Peru kills 2,541, including some as far away as Hawaii and Japan.
  • July 9 » The inaugural Wimbledon Championships begins.
  • July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
  • October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
  • October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1874 » Lucy Maud Montgomery, English-Canadian author and poet († 1942)
• 1874 » Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate († 1965)
• 1875 » Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player († 1936)
• 1875 » Otto Strandman, Estonian lawyer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia († 1941)