Database Van Broekhoven » Doodgeboren zoon Munsters (1894)

Birthday March 24, 1894

• The temperature on March 24, 1894 was about 8.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
  • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
  • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
  • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
  • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician († 1954)
• 1891 » Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic († 1951)
• 1892 » Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic († 1977)
• 1893 » George Sisler, American baseball player and scout († 1973)
• 1893 » Walter Baade, German astronomer and author († 1960)
• 1897 » Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic († 1957)