FutureHistory » Maria Julia Pauwels (1894-????)

Birthday February 11, 1894

• The temperature on February 11, 1894 was about 8.2 °C. There was 12 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 16 » Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
  • March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
  • August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
  • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
  • November 21 » Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Emil Leon Post, Polish-American mathematician and logician (d.1954)
• 1898 » Leo Szilard, Hungarian-American physicist and academic († 1964)
• 1900 » Ellen Broe, Danish nurse, pioneer in nursing education († 1994)
• 1900 » Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher and scholar († 2002)
• 1900 » Jōsei Toda, Japanese educator and activist († 1958)
• 1902 » Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed Radisson Blu Royal Hotel († 1971)