Dreyer Tree » Anna Magdalena Dreyer (1890-????)

Birthday February 4, 1890

• The temperature on February 4, 1890 was about -2.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • 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.
  • October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
  • December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Reinhold Rudenberg, German-American inventor and a pioneer of electron microscopy († 1961)
• 1891 » M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha († 1978)
• 1892 » E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and academic († 1964)
• 1895 » Nigel Bruce, English actor († 1953)
• 1896 » Friedrich Glauser, Austrian-Swiss author († 1938)
• 1896 » Friedrich Hund, German physicist and academic († 1997)