Ancestors Birgit Willaert » Anna Elisabeth Machielse (1894-????)

Birthday December 4, 1894

• The temperature on December 4, 1894 was about -1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
  • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • 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.

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• 1892 » Francisco Franco, Spanish general and dictator, Prime Minister of Spain († 1975)
• 1892 » Liu Bocheng, Chinese commander and politician († 1986)
• 1893 » Herbert Read, English poet and critic († 1968)
• 1895 » Feng Youlan, Chinese philosopher and academic († 1990)
• 1897 » Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of Mexico († 1958)
• 1899 » Karl-Günther Heimsoth, German physician and politician († 1934)