Genealogy Slot » Daniël Harms Zwiep (1889-????)

Birthday August 15, 1889

• The temperature on August 15, 1889 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
  • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
  • May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  • September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
  • November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Edna Ferber, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1968)
• 1886 » Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer († 1974)
• 1890 » Jacques Ibert, French composer and educator († 1962)
• 1892 » Abraham Wachner, New Zealand politician, 35th Mayor of Invercargill († 1950)
• 1892 » Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1893 » Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and academic († 1950)