About the day » Tuesday June 26, 1894Calender converter

• Adrianus Goossens, Woensdrecht, Netherlands
• Allegonda Maria Margaretha Heijnen, Hees
• Adriana Schilperoord, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Adrianus Goossens, Woensdrecht, N-Br, Nederland († 1944)
• Aaltje VISSER, Urk († 1986)
• Albertje Reinink, Westerbork († 1970)
• Martina Theodora van Beek, Helmond († 1894)
• Aaltjen Verstege, linde († 1894)
• Adriana Catharina Theodulphia Jansen, Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1984)
• Adriana Catherina Theodulphia Jansen, Tilburg, NB Netherlands († 1984)

• Cornelis Andriesz. Hoornweg (0), Charlois
• Anna Barbera Petrus Joosten (67), Leeuwarden, Nederland
• Anna Barbara Joosten (67), Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
• Barbera Westerhoff (44), Ten Boer
• Anna Sara Maria Simon (42), Padang
• Celestin BEAUDIN (85), Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada
• Christina Susanna van Antwerpen (52)
• Caroline Sarah Mendenhall (36), Hanksville, Utah
• Joldersma (0), Nieuw-Amsterdam, Drenthe, Netherlands
• Anna Elizabeth Haas (43), Allentown, PA (Lehigh Co)

• 1892 » Pearl S. Buck, American novelist, essayist, short story writer Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1893 » Dorothy Fuldheim, American journalist and news anchor(† 1989)
• 1895 » George Hainsworth, Canadian ice hockey player and politician († 1950)
• 1898 » Chesty Puller, US general († 1971)
• 1898 » Willy Messerschmitt, German engineer and businessman († 1978)
• 1899 » Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia († 1918)
• 1901 » Stuart Symington, American lieutenant and politician, 1st United States Secretary of the Air Force († 1988)
• 1902 » Hugues Cuénod, Swiss tenor and educator († 2010)
• 1903 » Big Bill Broonzy, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1958)
• 1904 » Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic († 1951)

• 1856 » Max Stirner, German philosopher and author (b. 1806)
• 1870 » Armand Barbès, French lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
• 1878 » Mercedes of Orléans (b. 1860)
• 1879 » Richard H. Anderson, American general (b. 1821)
• 1883 » Edward Sabine, Irish-English astronomer, geophysicist, and ornithologist (b. 1788)
• 1918 » Peter Rosegger, Austrian poet and author (b. 1843)
• 1922 » Albert I, Prince of Monaco (b. 1848)
• 1927 » Armand Guillaumin, French painter (b. 1841)
• 1932 » Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic (b. 1900)
• 1932 » William Murray McPherson, Australian politician, 31st Premier of Victoria (b. 1865)

• 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.
• 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.
• January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
• May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
• November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
• December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

The temperature on June 26, 1894 was about 16.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%.