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Birthday January 9, 1894

• The temperature on January 9, 1894 was about -6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
  • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright († 1938)
• 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)
• 1896 » Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-English conductor and director († 1971)
• 1897 » Karl Löwith, German philosopher, author, and academic († 1973)