Family tree Olde Scheper » Everdina Josephina Kortink (1890-????)

Birthday March 3, 1890

• The temperature on March 3, 1890 was about -6.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
  • July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
  • 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.
  • December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
  • December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Cyril Burt, English psychologist and geneticist († 1971)
• 1887 » Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot († 1915)
• 1891 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop († 1949)
• 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
• 1895 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)