Database Van Broekhoven » Johannes Martinus van Wijk (1898-????)

Birthday December 22, 1898

• The temperature on December 22, 1898 was about -1.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • May 8 » The first games of the Italian football league system are played.
  • June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
  • June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
  • July 1 » Spanish–American War: The Battle of San Juan Hill is fought in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
  • August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
  • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Herman Potočnik, Croatian-Austrian engineer († 1929)
• 1898 » Vladimir Fock, Russian physicist and mathematician († 1974)
• 1899 » Gustaf Gründgens, German actor and director († 1963)
• 1900 » Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter († 1973)
• 1901 » Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-American conductor and composer († 1980)
• 1903 » Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)