Conk/Robillard Family Tree » George A. Conk (1892-????)

Birthday April 1, 1892

• The temperature on April 1, 1892 was about 4.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
  • September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
  • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
  • October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
  • November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill († 1977)
• 1885 » Wallace Beery, American actor († 1949)
• 1889 » K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist († 1940)
• 1893 » Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress († 1980)
• 1895 » Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse († 1984)
• 1898 » William James Sidis, Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian († 1944)