Ancestors Koudijs-Monne » Adriana Johanna Wilhelmina Werner (1888-????)

Birthday September 13, 1888

• The temperature on September 13, 1888 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 77 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 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• 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 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 20 » The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
  • September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
  • October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
  • December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Wilhelm Blaschke, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1886 » Amelie Beese, German pilot and sculptor († 1925)
• 1886 » Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1887 » Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1890 » Antony Noghès, French-Monegasque businessman, founded the Monaco Grand Prix († 1978)
• 1891 » Max Pruss, German captain and pilot († 1960)