Family tree Klavers » Hendrikus Twijnstra (1890-????)

Birthday May 3, 1890

• The temperature on May 3, 1890 was about 9.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 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)
• 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 April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
  • March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
  • July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
  • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  • September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
  • December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Beulah Bondi, American actress († 1981)
• 1889 » Gottfried Fuchs, German-Canadian Olympic soccer player († 1972)
• 1891 » Eppa Rixey, American baseball pitcher († 1963)
• 1891 » Tadeusz Peiper, Polish poet and critic († 1969)
• 1892 » George Paget Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1892 » Jacob Viner, Canadian-American economist and academic († 1970)