Family tree Menting » Maria Johanna Elisabeth van Maarsseveen (1894-????)

Birthday July 4, 1894

• The temperature on July 4, 1894 was about 17.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
  • 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.
  • May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
  • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • November 17 » H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Irving Caesar, American songwriter and composer († 1996)
• 1896 » Mao Dun, Chinese journalist, author, and critic († 1981)
• 1897 » Alluri Sitarama Raju, Indian activist († 1924)
• 1898 » Gertrude Lawrence, British actress, singer, and dancer († 1952)
• 1898 » Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician († 1998)
• 1898 » Pilar Barbosa, Puerto Rican-American historian and activist († 1997)