Eijsermans family tree » Henricus Maria Antonius Franciscus van Eijck (1889-????)

Birthday January 31, 1889

• The temperature on January 31, 1889 was about 8.5 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 50 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
  • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
  • November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
  • November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Mammad Amin Rasulzade, Azerbaijani scholar and politician, 1st President of The Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan († 1955)
• 1884 » Theodor Heuss, German journalist and politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Germany († 1963)
• 1889 » Frank Foster, English cricketer († 1958)
• 1892 » Eddie Cantor, American singer-songwriter, actor, and dancer († 1964)
• 1894 » Isham Jones, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader († 1956)
• 1896 » Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician and historian († 1966)