Descendants Heeres » NN Rorije (1889)

Birthday October 7, 1889

• The temperature on October 7, 1889 was about 9.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate († 1962)
• 1887 » Jack Russell, English cricketer and coach († 1961)
• 1888 » Edna Meade Colson, African American educator and activist († 1985)
• 1888 » Henry A. Wallace, American agronomist and politician, 33rd Vice President of the United States († 1965)
• 1889 » Robert Z. Leonard, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1968)
• 1892 » Dwain Esper, American director and producer († 1982)