Family tree Menting » Anna Catharina Rikken (1891-????)

Birthday March 30, 1891

• The temperature on March 30, 1891 was about 0.7 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1891: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 29 » Liliuokalani is proclaimed the last monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
  • March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
  • April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
  • May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
  • May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
  • August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Chunseong, Korean monk, writer and philosopher († 1977)
• 1892 » Erhard Milch, German field marshal († 1972)
• 1892 » Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic († 1968)
• 1892 » Fortunato Depero, Italian painter and sculptor († 1960)
• 1892 » Johannes Pääsuke, Estonian photographer and director († 1918)
• 1892 » Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician and academic († 1945)