Family tree Menting » Joseph Willem Janssen (1890-????)

Birthday March 22, 1890

• The temperature on March 22, 1890 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
  • July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
  • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  • October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
  • November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
  • November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1886 » August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia († 1963)
• 1887 » Chico Marx, American actor († 1961)
• 1890 » George Clark, American race car driver († 1978)
• 1892 » Charlie Poole, American country banjo player († 1931)
• 1892 » Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar († 1970)