Verwanten van Alic Gillis » Elisa Maria Depoorter (1883-????)

Birthday March 20, 1883

• The temperature on March 20, 1883 was about 3.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
  • May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
  • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
  • August 21 » An F5 tornado strikes Rochester, Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
  • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist († 1960)
• 1882 » Harold Weber, American golfer († 1933)
• 1882 » René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France († 1962)
• 1884 » John Jensen, Australian public servant († 1970)
• 1884 » Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher († 1966)
• 1885 » Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer († 1958)