Genealogy Van Raam » Alida Margaretha van Pel (1892-????)

Birthday April 24, 1892

• The temperature on April 24, 1892 was about 10.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
  • July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
  • July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
  • 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 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
  • 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

• 1887 » Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter († 1931)
• 1888 » Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator († 1973)
• 1889 » Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and academic († 1924)
• 1889 » Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer († 1952)
• 1897 » Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer († 1941)
• 1897 » Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico († 1955)