Verzameling parochieregisters Van Neste » Achille Xavier Laridon (1892-????)

Birthday April 29, 1892

• The temperature on April 29, 1892 was about 7.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
  • 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 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.
  • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
  • October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Raymond Thorne, American swimmer († 1921)
• 1891 » Bharathidasan, Indian poet and activist († 1964)
• 1893 » Harold Urey, American chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
• 1894 » Marietta Blau, Austrian physicist and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Malcolm Sargent, English organist, composer, and conductor († 1967)
• 1895 » Vladimir Propp, Russian scholar and critic († 1970)