Family tree Harmsen-de Vries » Dirkje Lena Oosterman (1892-????)

Birthday April 15, 1892

• The temperature on April 15, 1892 was about 5.6 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
  • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
  • July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
  • July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
  • August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
  • September 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.
  • December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Thomas Hart Benton, American painter and educator († 1975)
• 1890 » Percy Shaw, English businessman, invented the cat's eye († 1976)
• 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)