In het jaar achttien honderd acht en negentig den tienden der maand October verscheen voor mij Diderik Hendrik Jas, ambtenaar van den Burgerlijken Stand der Gemeente Dubbeldam: Willem van den Boogaard, oud zes en vijftig jaren, aanspreker wonende te Dubbeldam en Teunis Stehouwer oud zeven en dertig jaren, Veldwachter wonende te Dubbeldam, welke mij verklaard hebben, dat op den achtsten dezer maand des voor middags ten half twaalf ure, te Dubbeldam, in het huis geteekend wijk C nummer twee en twintig is overleden Gerrit van Heeren, oud twee jaren, zonder beroep, geboren en wonende alhier, zoon van Adrianus van Heeren, arbeider en Neeltje van der Weijde,zonder beroep, beiden wonende alhier. Waarvan dadelijk deze akte is opgemaakt, aan de aangevers voorgelezen, en door mij met hen onderteekend. W. v d Boogaard, T. Stehouwer, ..............
January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
Day of death October 8, 1898
The temperature on October 8, 1898 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
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