Rutten Vlaanderen Meems Huizing » Anna Antina Soenveld (1892-????)

Birthday March 5, 1892

• The temperature on March 5, 1892 was about -0.9 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
  • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
  • September 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
  • November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
  • December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China († 1975)
• 1886 » Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer († 1927)
• 1887 » Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer († 1959)
• 1894 » Henry Daniell, English-American actor († 1963)
• 1898 » Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian († 2015)
• 1898 » Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China († 1976)