Family tree Van Barneveld et al » Willemina Lagerweij (1892-????)

Birthday August 23, 1892

• The temperature on August 23, 1892 was about 22.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
  • June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
  • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
  • June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Ogden L. Mills, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 50th United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1937)
• 1884 » Will Cuppy, American author and critic († 1949)
• 1890 » Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday († 1971)
• 1891 » Roy Agnew, Australian pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1894 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier († 1959)
• 1897 » Henry F. Pringle, American historian and journalist († 1958)