Family tree familie Lelieveldt/Lelivelt » Wilhelmus Martinus (Willem) Huting (1889-????)

Birthday August 8, 1889

• The temperature on August 8, 1889 was about 20.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
  • January 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • 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 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
  • June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
  • November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Ladislas Starevich, Russian-French animator, screenwriter, and cinematographer († 1965)
• 1884 » Sara Teasdale, American poet and educator († 1933)
• 1889 » Hans Egede Budtz, Danish actor († 1968)
• 1889 » Jack Ryder, Australian cricketer († 1977)
• 1891 » Adolf Busch, German violinist and composer († 1952)
• 1896 » Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic († 1953)