Family tree Root, Brinksma, Van Schoten en Molen » Jannetje Elisabeth "Jans" Root (1894-1986)
Personal data Jannetje Elisabeth "Jans" Root
- Nickname is Jans.
- She was born on December 1, 1894 in Koog aan de Zaan.
- She died in the year 1986 in Zaandam, she was 91 years old.
- A child of Andries Root and Naatje Nieman
- This information was last updated on November 19, 2007.
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Birthday December 1, 1894
- The temperature on December 1, 1894 was about 6.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
- March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
- April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
- May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
- July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
- August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
Same birth/death day
- 1894 » Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist († 1982)
- 1895 » Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author († 1977)
- 1896 » Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union († 1974)
- 1898 » Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer († 1977)
- 1898 » Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba († 1977)
- 1900 » Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker († 1987)
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