Family tree Brons » Grietje Jans Scheerhoorn (1789-????)

Birthday June 14, 1789

• The temperature on June 14, 1789 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• In the year 1789: Source: Wikipedia
  • January 23 » Georgetown College, the first Catholic university in the United States, is founded in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.).
  • February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
  • July 12 » In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results in the storming of the Bastille two days later.
  • August 7 » The United States Department of War is established.
  • September 22 » Battle of Rymnik: Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats superior Ottoman Empire forces.
  • October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1780 » Henry Salt, English historian and diplomat, British Consul-General in Egypt († 1827)
• 1796 » Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic († 1866)
• 1798 » František Palacký, Czech historian and politician († 1876)
• 1801 » Heber C. Kimball, American religious leader († 1868)
• 1811 » Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist († 1896)
• 1812 » Fernando Wood, American merchant and politician, 73rd Mayor of New York City († 1881)