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Birthday February 27, 1894

• The temperature on February 27, 1894 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
  • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
  • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Mabel Keaton Staupers, American nurse and advocate († 1989)
• 1891 » David Sarnoff, American businessman, founded RCA († 1971)
• 1892 » William Demarest, American actor († 1983)
• 1895 » Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler († 1943)
• 1897 » Marian Anderson, American singer († 1993)
• 1899 » Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin († 1978)