Stamvaders Kurvers » Margaretha Johanna Saly (1889-????)

Birthday March 3, 1889

• The temperature on March 3, 1889 was about -1.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
  • May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  • May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
  • November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
  • November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Cyril Burt, English psychologist and geneticist († 1971)
• 1883 » Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist († 1977)
• 1887 » Lincoln J. Beachey, American pilot († 1915)
• 1891 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop († 1949)
• 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)