Family tree Van der Waal » arendje WILLMES (1878-????)

Birthday October 30, 1878

• The temperature on October 30, 1878 was about 2.6 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 9 » Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Hugo Celmiņš, Latvian politician, Prime Minister of Latvia († 1941)
• 1878 » Arthur Scherbius, German electrical engineer, invented the Enigma machine († 1929)
• 1881 » Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and author († 1941)
• 1882 » Günther von Kluge, Polish-German field marshal († 1944)
• 1882 » Oldřich Duras, Czech chess player and composer († 1957)
• 1882 » William Halsey, Jr., American admiral († 1959)