FutureHistory » Maria Caroline van Landeghem (1894-????)

Birthday January 21, 1894

• The temperature on January 21, 1894 was about 5.3 °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.
  • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • April 14 » The first ever commercial motion picture house opened in New York City using ten Kinetoscopes, a device for peep-show viewing of films.
  • 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.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga († 1972)
• 1895 » Daniel Chalonge, French astrophysicist and astronomer († 1977)
• 1895 » Noe Itō, Japanese anarchist, author and feminist († 1923)
• 1896 » Guy Gilpatric, American pilot and journalist († 1950)
• 1896 » J. Carrol Naish, American actor († 1973)
• 1896 » Paula Hitler, younger sister of Adolf Hitler († 1960)