Genealogy Jan Abrahams Dijkstra » Anna Maria Rutgers (1889-????)

Birthday May 25, 1889

• The temperature on May 25, 1889 was about 17.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
  • 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.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
  • November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Philip Murray, Scottish-American miner and labor leader († 1952)
• 1886 » Rash Behari Bose, Indian soldier and activist († 1945)
• 1887 » Padre Pio, Italian priest and saint († 1968)
• 1888 » Miles Malleson, English actor and screenwriter († 1969)
• 1889 » Günther Lütjens, German admiral († 1941)
• 1889 » Igor Sikorsky, Russian-American aircraft designer, founded Sikorsky Aircraft († 1972)