Eijsermans family tree » Joannes Cornelius van Dun (1893-????)

Birthday April 15, 1893

• The temperature on April 15, 1893 was about 7.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • August 15 » Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
  • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
  • September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Corrie ten Boom, Dutch-American clocksmith, Nazi resister, and author († 1983)
• 1892 » Theo Osterkamp, German general and pilot († 1975)
• 1894 » Bessie Smith, African-American singer and actress († 1937)
• 1894 » Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1971)
• 1895 » Abigail Mejia, Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator († 1941)
• 1895 » Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player († 1980)