Family tree Scheltens » Pieter Johan van Valkenburg (1894-????)

Birthday March 3, 1894

• The temperature on March 3, 1894 was about 0.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • January 9 » New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
  • 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.
  • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • November 1 » Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop († 1949)
• 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
• 1895 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1898 » Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1900 » Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 († 1974)