Family tree Steinmeier/De Vries » Cornelis de Jonge (1889-????)

Birthday March 14, 1889

• The temperature on March 14, 1889 was about 3.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
  • June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
  • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
  • 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.
  • November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1955)
• 1882 » Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic († 1969)
• 1885 » Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot († 1918)
• 1886 » Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist († 1964)
• 1887 » Sylvia Beach, American-French publisher, founded Shakespeare and Company († 1962)
• 1898 » Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator († 1954)