Database Van Broekhoven » Wilhelmus Hubertus van Hooff (1892-????)

Birthday January 9, 1892

• The temperature on January 9, 1892 was about -2.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
  • 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.
  • June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
  • August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
  • December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Vrindavan Lal Verma, Indian author and playwright († 1969)
• 1890 » Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright († 1938)
• 1890 » Kurt Tucholsky, German-Swedish journalist and author († 1935)
• 1891 » August Gailit, Estonian journalist and author († 1960)
• 1892 » Eva Bowring, American lawyer and politician († 1985)
• 1893 » Edwin Baker, Canadian soldier and educator, co-founded the Canadian National Institute for the Blind († 1968)