Voornaeme Geslachte en Eenvoudige Luyde » Catharina Maria IZENDOORN (1891-????)

Birthday February 20, 1891

• The temperature on February 20, 1891 was about -3.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
  • May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
  • May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
  • August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
  • August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
  • October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada († 1967)
• 1888 » Georges Bernanos, French soldier and author († 1948)
• 1889 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician († 1948)
• 1893 » Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author († 1993)
• 1895 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer († 1924)
• 1897 » Ivan Albright, American painter († 1983)