Local Heritage Book Barger-Compascuum » Aaltje Magrieta ten Brink (1890-????)

Birthday March 19, 1890

• The temperature on March 19, 1890 was about 5.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
  • June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
  • July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
  • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  • September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
  • November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator († 1976)
• 1888 » Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist († 1969)
• 1891 » Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States († 1974)
• 1892 » Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter († 1961)
• 1892 » James Van Fleet, American general and diplomat († 1992)
• 1892 » Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art († 1967)