CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. March
  4. 7
  5. Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer

Births on March 7

Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer
1888Mar, 7

Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer

Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1978)
Jonkheer Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (7 March 1888 – 16 August 1978) was a Dutch nobleman and statesman, primarily noted for being the last colonial Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, now Indonesia. He was taken captive after accepting Japan's demands for an unconditional surrender of the islands on 9 March 1942.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1888

  • 16May

    Electric power transmission

    Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • 31Aug

    Jack the Ripper

    Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
  • 4Sep

    Kodak

    George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
  • 8Sep

    Annie Chapman

    In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
  • 30Sep

    Elizabeth Stride

    Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.