Genealogy Romeijnders » Albertus van Bergen (1888-????)

Birthday August 14, 1888

• The temperature on August 14, 1888 was about 16.5 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. 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 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• 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 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
  • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Ernest Everett Just, American biologist and academic († 1941)
• 1886 » Arthur Jeffrey Dempster, Canadian-American physicist and academic († 1950)
• 1887 » Marija Leiko, Latvian actress († 1937)
• 1889 » Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia († 1976)
• 1890 » Bruno Tesch, German chemist and businessman († 1946)
• 1892 » Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, English pianist, composer, and critic († 1988)