Family tree van Walter Planije en Everarda de Winter met (teveel) vertakkingen » Franciscus Wilhelmus Fontijn (1889-????)

Birthday October 17, 1889

• The temperature on October 17, 1889 was about 11.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
  • January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
  • 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.
  • July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
  • November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
  • November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Spring Byington, American actress († 1971)
• 1889 » Mikha'il Na'ima, Lebanese author († 1988)
• 1890 » Roy Kilner, English cricketer († 1928)
• 1892 » Herbert Howells, English organist, composer, and educator († 1983)
• 1892 » Theodor Eicke, German SS general († 1943)
• 1893 » Raffaele Bendandi, Italian clockmaker and seismologist († 1979)