Genealogy Moelker » Johannis Martinus van Wijk (1892-????)

Birthday September 5, 1892

• The temperature on September 5, 1892 was about 13.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • 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.
  • October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
  • November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India († 1975)
• 1892 » Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist and educator († 1973)
• 1897 » Arthur Nielsen, American market analyst, founded ACNielsen († 1980)
• 1897 » Morris Carnovsky, American actor († 1992)
• 1899 » Helen Creighton, Canadian author and educator († 1989)
• 1899 » Humphrey Cobb, American author and screenwriter († 1944)