The temperature on December 3, 1889 was about -4.8 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
Day of death January 14, 1890
The temperature on January 14, 1890 was about 7.7 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Jan Middelkoop, "Arien van Middelkoop Parenteel", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/arien-van-middelkoop-parenteel-1650/I9447.php : accessed June 11, 2024), "Pieter van Middelkoop (1889-1890)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.