Genealogy Kooten » Johannes Albertus Scherrenberg (1894-????)

Birthday March 13, 1894

• The temperature on March 13, 1894 was about 7.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
  • June 23 » The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne in Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
  • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Fritz Busch, German conductor and director († 1951)
• 1892 » Janet Flanner, American journalist and author († 1978)
• 1897 » Yeghishe Charents, Armenian poet and activist († 1937)
• 1898 » Henry Hathaway, American director and producer († 1985)
• 1899 » John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1980)
• 1899 » Pancho Vladigerov, Bulgarian pianist and composer († 1978)