Eijsermans family tree » Johanna Maria Josephina de Groot (1888-????)

Birthday March 27, 1888

• The temperature on March 27, 1888 was about 6.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 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 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• 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 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
  • October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1886 » Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian painter and illustrator († 1917)
• 1887 » Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator († 1932)
• 1888 » George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer († 1978)
• 1889 » Leonard Mociulschi, Romanian general († 1979)
• 1889 » Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician († 1974)