Family tree Drenckhahn/Gombault » Geertje van Kalteren (1889-????)

Birthday September 3, 1889

• The temperature on September 3, 1889 was about 18.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. 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 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.
  • June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
  • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
  • July 11 » Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
  • September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
  • 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

• 1878 » Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, English tennis player († 1960)
• 1882 » Johnny Douglas, English cricketer and boxer († 1930)
• 1887 » Frank Christian, American trumpet player († 1973)
• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)
• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1899 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)