Family tree Goossens x Van der Heijden » Johanna Maria Bruurs (1894-1980)

Birthday December 30, 1894

• The temperature on December 30, 1894 was about 1.1 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
  • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
  • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Hideki Tōjō, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan († 1948)
• 1887 » William Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner and coach († 1967)
• 1890 » Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican soldier and politician, 47th President of Mexico (1952-1958) who granted women the right to vote. († 1973)
• 1897 » Alfredo Bracchi, Italian songwriter and screenwriter († 1976)
• 1899 » Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard († 2001)
• 1904 » Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic († 1987)