Family tree Van Dijk » Wilhelmus Johannes Franciscus Clerks (1889-????)

Birthday June 7, 1889

• The temperature on June 7, 1889 was about 24.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  • July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
  • November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Ester Claesson, Swedish landscape architect († 1931)
• 1886 » Henri Coandă, Romanian engineer, designed the Coandă-1910 († 1972)
• 1888 » Clarence DeMar, American runner and educator († 1958)
• 1892 » Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player († 1975)
• 1893 » Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect († 1938)
• 1894 » Alexander P. de Seversky, Georgian-American pilot and engineer, co-designed the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt († 1974)