Family tree Eman/Swart-Radstok/Attevelt » Gerardus Petrus de Haas (1888-????)

Birthday January 28, 1888

• The temperature on January 28, 1888 was about -0.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 43 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • March 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
  • 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.
  • July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
  • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach († 1970)
• 1884 » Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer († 1962)
• 1885 » Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist († 1920)
• 1886 » Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic († 1976)
• 1886 » Marthe Bibesco, Romanian-French author and poet († 1973)
• 1887 » Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-American pianist and educator († 1982)