Meyer Genealogy Tree » Marie Dusenbery (1894-1894)

Birthday April 11, 1894

• The temperature on April 11, 1894 was about 14.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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.
  • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
  • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
  • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
  • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Jamini Roy, Indian painter († 1972)
• 1893 » Dean Acheson, American lawyer and politician, 51st United States Secretary of State († 1971)
• 1896 » Léo-Paul Desrosiers, Canadian journalist and author († 1967)
• 1899 » Percy Lavon Julian, African-American chemist and academic († 1975)
• 1900 » Sándor Márai, Hungarian journalist and author († 1989)
• 1903 » Misuzu Kaneko, Japanese poet († 1930)