Van Hoof Tree » Anna Maria van Lieshout (1892-????)

Birthday April 7, 1892

• The temperature on April 7, 1892 was about 10.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
  • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
  • April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
  • 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.
  • August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
  • November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
  • November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate († 1957)
• 1890 » Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist († 1998)
• 1890 » Paul Berth, Danish footballer († 1969)
• 1891 » Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish businessman, founded the Lego Group († 1958)
• 1893 » Allen Dulles, American lawyer and diplomat, 5th Director of Central Intelligence († 1969)
• 1895 » John Flannagan, American soldier and sculptor († 1942)