Family tree Van Dijk » Adrianus van Iersel (1894-????)

Birthday July 6, 1894

• The temperature on July 6, 1894 was about 21.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. 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.
  • May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
  • May 21 » The Manchester Ship Canal in the United Kingdom is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
  • July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
  • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
  • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
  • December 22 » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Indian-American author and scholar († 1936)
• 1892 » Will James, American author and illustrator († 1942)
• 1897 » Richard Krautheimer, German-American historian and scholar († 1994)
• 1898 » Hanns Eisler, German-Austrian soldier and composer († 1962)
• 1899 » Susannah Mushatt Jones, American supercentarian († 2016)
• 1900 » Frederica Sagor Maas, American author and screenwriter († 2012)