Family tree Torn » Johannes Jan van Hamburg (1881-????)

Birthday May 13, 1881

• The temperature on May 13, 1881 was about 17.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • 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 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Robert Hamilton, Scottish international footballer († 1948)
• 1881 » Joe Forshaw, American runner († 1964)
• 1881 » Lima Barreto, Brazilian journalist and author († 1922)
• 1882 » Georges Braque, French painter and sculptor († 1963)
• 1883 » Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek-American pathologist, invented the pap smear († 1962)
• 1884 » Oskar Rosenfeld, Jewish-Austrian writer and Holocaust victim (d.1944)