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Birthday August 22, 1894

• The temperature on August 22, 1894 was about 15.7 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
  • July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
  • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist († 1967)
• 1893 » Ernest H. Volwiler, American chemist († 1992)
• 1893 » Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army († 1977)
• 1895 » László Almásy, Hungarian captain, pilot, and explorer († 1951)
• 1895 » Paul Comtois, Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Lieutenant Governor of Quebec († 1966)
• 1896 » Laurence McKinley Gould, American geologist, educator, and polar explorer († 1995)