Dagosto/Dimirra/Weckerle/Kuhn Family Tree » Albert Bernard Wagatha (1889-1978)

Birthday April 21, 1889

• The temperature on April 21, 1889 was about 14.8 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
  • January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
  • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
  • June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Tatu Kolehmainen, Finnish runner († 1967)
• 1887 » Joe McCarthy, American baseball manager († 1978)
• 1889 » Efrem Zimbalist, Sr., Russian-American violinist, composer, and conductor († 1985)
• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
• 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1892 » Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver († 1956)