Clarke Family Tree » George Cecil Rickeard (1889-1966)

Birthday June 11, 1889

• The temperature on June 11, 1889 was about 18.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • 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.
  • November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
  • November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1881 » Mordecai Kaplan, Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism († 1983)
• 1881 » Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter († 1963)
• 1888 » Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal († 1927)
• 1889 » Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete († 1976)
• 1894 » Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyota († 1952)
• 1895 » Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician († 1975)