Family tree Munnik » Jan Hendrik Boerstra (1894-????)

Birthday April 2, 1894

• The temperature on April 2, 1894 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
  • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • 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 » Jack Buchanan, Scottish entertainer († 1957)
• 1891 » Max Ernst, German painter, sculptor, and poet († 1976)
• 1891 » Tristão de Bragança Cunha, Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa († 1958)
• 1896 » Johnny Golden, American golfer († 1936)
• 1898 » Chiungtze C. Tsen, Chinese mathematician († 1940)
• 1898 » Harindranath Chattopadhyay, Indian poet, actor and politician († 1990)