FutureHistory » Joannes Baptist Armirotto (1899-????)

Birthday June 22, 1899

• The temperature on June 22, 1899 was about 18.4 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
• 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
  • February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
  • March 4 » Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1mi) inland, killing over 300.
  • March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
  • July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
  • July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Edmund A. Chester, American journalist and broadcaster († 1973)
• 1897 » Norbert Elias, German-Dutch sociologist and philosopher († 1990)
• 1898 » Erich Maria Remarque, German-Swiss soldier and author († 1970)
• 1899 » Michał Kalecki, Polish economist and academic († 1970)
• 1899 » Richard Gurley Drew, American engineer, invented Masking tape († 1980)
• 1900 » Oskar Fischinger, German-American abstract artist, filmmaker, and painter († 1967)