Genealogy Van Loo-Malcorps » Daniel DE WIT (1789-????)

Birthday July 7, 1789

• The temperature on July 7, 1789 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • June 8 » James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
  • July 11 » Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.
  • August 7 » The United States Department of War is established.
  • September 25 » The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
  • October 19 » John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1752 » Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom († 1834)
• 1766 » Guillaume Philibert Duhesme, French general († 1815)
• 1831 » Jane Elizabeth Conklin, American poet and religious writer († 1914)
• 1833 » Félicien Rops, Belgian painter and illustrator († 1898)
• 1843 » Camillo Golgi, Italian physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1926)
• 1846 » Heinrich Rosenthal, Estonian physician and author († 1916)