Ancestors Rongé Jonas / Rongé Manou » Maria Melania RONGÉ (1887-????)

Birthday October 16, 1887

• The temperature on October 16, 1887 was about 3.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
  • February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
  • November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
  • November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.

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• 1884 » Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor († 1916)
• 1886 » David Ben-Gurion, Polish-Israeli soldier and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel († 1973)
• 1888 » Eugene O'Neill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1953)
• 1888 » Paul Popenoe, American founder of relationship counseling († 1979)
• 1890 » Maria Goretti, Italian martyr and saint († 1902)
• 1890 » Michael Collins, Irish general and politician, 2nd Irish Minister for Finance († 1922)