Haasdijk family from Oldeboorn » David Johannes Stelpstra (1889-????)

Birthday November 27, 1889

• The temperature on November 27, 1889 was about 1.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
  • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
  • September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Daniel Mendaille, French actor († 1963)
• 1885 » Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian author and playwright († 1944)
• 1887 » Masaharu Homma, Japanese general († 1946)
• 1888 » Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar, Indian activist and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha († 1956)
• 1894 » Katherine Milhous, American author and illustrator († 1977)
• 1894 » Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic († 1989)