Family tree Menting » Maria Cornelia Jongerius (1894-1982)

Birthday September 14, 1894

• The temperature on September 14, 1894 was about 12.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
  • March 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
  • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic († 1983)
• 1892 » Laurence W. Allen, English lieutenant and pilot († 1968)
• 1896 » José Mojica, Mexican tenor and actor († 1974)
• 1898 » Ernest Nash, German-Italian photographer and scholar († 1974)
• 1898 » Hal B. Wallis, American film producer († 1986)
• 1898 » Lawrence Gellert, Hungarian-American musicologist and song collector († 1979)