Eijsermans family tree » Petronella Wilhelmina Jansen (1894-????)

Birthday February 20, 1894

• The temperature on February 20, 1894 was about -5.1 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
  • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  • May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
  • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and physician († 1948)
• 1893 » Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist and author († 1993)
• 1895 » Louis Zborowski, English race car driver and engineer († 1924)
• 1897 » Ivan Albright, American painter († 1983)
• 1898 » Ante Ciliga, Croatian politician, writer and publisher († 1992)
• 1899 » Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist († 1992)