Family tree Ten Have » Johannes Antonius Theodorus Ongering (1898-????)

Birthday April 26, 1898

• The temperature on April 26, 1898 was about 14.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 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 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
  • August 12 » The Hawaiian flag is lowered from ʻIolani Palace in an elaborate annexation ceremony and replaced with the flag of the United States to signify the transfer of sovereignty from the Republic of Hawaii to the United States.
  • August 23 » The Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, departs from London.
  • August 25 » Seven hundred Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.
  • August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
  • October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director († 1967)
• 1897 » Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1897 » Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder († 1967)
• 1898 » John Grierson, Scottish director and producer († 1972)
• 1898 » Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)
• 1899 » Oscar Rabin, Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader († 1958)