Family tree De Goeij / Hendriks » Johannes Fredericus Leroi (1889-????)

Birthday April 10, 1889

• The temperature on April 10, 1889 was about 11.8 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Johnny Hayes, American runner and trainer († 1965)
• 1887 » Bernardo Houssay, Argentinian physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1889 » Louis Rougier, French philosopher from the Vienna Circle († 1982)
• 1891 » Frank Barson, English footballer and coach († 1968)
• 1893 » Otto Steinböck, Austrian zoologist († 1969)
• 1894 » Ben Nicholson, British painter († 1982)