Family tree Stoll » Zacharias Hendrik Schenk (1889-????)

Birthday January 15, 1889

• The temperature on January 15, 1889 was about -7.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • 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 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
  • 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.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player († 1968)
• 1885 » Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and author († 1973)
• 1890 » Michiaki Kamada, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1891 » Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet and translator († 1938)
• 1891 » Ray Chapman, American baseball player († 1920)
• 1893 » Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor († 1951)