Descendants Willem van Spanje » Albertus Anthonius Maria Gründemann (1888-????)

Birthday July 7, 1888

• The temperature on July 7, 1888 was about 12.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 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)
• 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.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
  • October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Lion Feuchtwanger, German author and playwright († 1958)
• 1884 » Toivo Kuula, Finnish conductor and composer († 1918)
• 1891 » Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Japanese general and poet († 1945)
• 1891 » Virginia Rappe, American model and actress († 1921)
• 1893 » Herbert Feis, American historian and author († 1972)
• 1893 » Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright († 1981)