De nazaten van Hendrick Jacobsz (van Harskamp) » Christina Maria van Dorland (1894-????)

Birthday October 3, 1894

• The temperature on October 3, 1894 was about 6.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
  • 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.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco († 1982)
• 1894 » Walter Warlimont, German general († 1976)
• 1895 » Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet († 1969)
• 1895 » Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet († 1925)
• 1896 » Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman († 1961)
• 1896 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic († 1987)