Genealogy Gomes » Antje Smit (1894-????)

Birthday June 5, 1894

• The temperature on June 5, 1894 was about 16.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1892 » Jaan Kikkas, Estonian weightlifter († 1944)
• 1894 » Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-English publisher and academic († 1976)
• 1895 » William Boyd, American actor and producer († 1972)
• 1895 » William Roberts, English soldier and painter († 1980)
• 1898 » Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, playwright, and director († 1936)
• 1898 » Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. († 1960)