Stewart/Humm Family Tree » Alice Davis (1881-????)

Birthday March 4, 1881

• The temperature on March 4, 1881 was about -0.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • 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).
  • November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet († 1951)
• 1880 » Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic († 1946)
• 1881 » Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist († 1948)
• 1881 » Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author († 1965)
• 1881 » Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian educator and activist († 1924)
• 1882 » Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian academic and politician, 61st Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1941)