Genealogy Van Raam » Johanna Cornelia Gupffert (1890-????)

Birthday January 21, 1890

• The temperature on January 21, 1890 was about 4.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
  • March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
  • April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
  • July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
  • December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
  • December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Ernest Holmes, American New Thought writer († 1960)
• 1887 » Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player († 1926)
• 1887 » Wolfgang Köhler, German psychologist and phenomenologist († 1967)
• 1889 » Pitirim Sorokin, American sociologist and political activist († 1968)
• 1891 » Albert Battel, German Army lieutenant and lawyer († 1952)
• 1891 » Francisco Lázaro, Portuguese marathon runner († 1912)