Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Petronella Adriana Batenburg (1889-????)

Birthday March 27, 1889

• The temperature on March 27, 1889 was about 4.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 38 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
  • May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
  • July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
  • September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
  • October 24 » Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator († 1932)
• 1888 » George Alfred Lawrence Hearne, English-South African cricketer († 1978)
• 1889 » Leonard Mociulschi, Romanian general († 1979)
• 1889 » Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician († 1974)
• 1890 » Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral († 1974)
• 1890 » Harald Julin, Swedish swimmer and water polo player († 1967)