Zijper families » Jan Snip (1878-????)

Birthday September 13, 1878

• The temperature on September 13, 1878 was about 17.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer and painter († 1951)
• 1874 » Henry F. Ashurst, American lawyer and politician († 1962)
• 1876 » Sherwood Anderson, American novelist and short story writer († 1941)
• 1877 » Stanley Lord, English captain († 1962)
• 1877 » Wilhelm Filchner, German-Swiss explorer († 1957)
• 1880 » Jesse L. Lasky, American film producer, co-founded Famous Players-Lasky († 1958)