Family tree Baas-Vanheeswijck » Johan George Groesz (1889-????)

Birthday July 10, 1889

• The temperature on July 10, 1889 was about 19.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
  • January 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
  • November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
  • November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Hugo Raudsepp, Estonian playwright and politician († 1952)
• 1883 » Johannes Blaskowitz, German general († 1948)
• 1888 » Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and set designer († 1978)
• 1888 » Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese evangelist, author, and activist († 1960)
• 1891 » Edith Quimby, American medical researcher and physicist († 1982)
• 1894 » Jimmy McHugh, American composer († 1969)