Zie: Wikipedia.
Gebeurtenissen:
1 Januari - Ellis Island wordt de plek waar alle immigranten de Verenigde Staten van
Amerika binnenkomen.
31 Oktober - Inwijding van de gerestaureerde slotkapel in Wittenberg.
25 November - De Franse baron Pierre de Coubertin lanceert het idee de Olympische
Spelen in moderne vorm te doen herleven.
Administratieve hervormingen in Thailand (zie Changwat).
In Noorwegen wordt het landsmål gelijkgesteld aan het riksmål.
De Falklandeilanden worden een Britse kolonie.
In Nederland wordt de links-liberale Radicale Bond gevormd.
Rudolf Diesel krijgt patent op de dieselmotor.
De ziekte van Bechterew wordt voor het eerst beschreven, door Vladimir Mikhailovitsch
Bechterew.
Ontdekking van Amalthea.
William Painter vindt de kroonkurk uit.
Eerste Sezession-beweging, in München.
Schilderijen van Edvard Munch veroorzaken een schandaal op een tentoonstelling in Berlijn.
Auguste Rodin begint het werk aan Balzac.
De Internationale wordt officieel aangenomen als strijdlied van de communistische beweging.
De Vereniging: De Afscheiding en de Doleantie gaan samen als de Gereformeerde Kerken in
Nederland.
De Internationale Schaatsunie (ISU) wordt opgericht.
De wielerklassieker Luik-Bastenaken-Luik wordt voor het eerst gehouden.
Arthur von Bernstorff-Wehningen koopt Schiermonnikoog van John Eric Banck.

Geboren:
3 Januari - J.R.R. Tolkien, Engels schrijver.
6 Januari - Jacoba Roggeband.
23 Januari - Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Nederlands chemicus.
30 Januari - Krijn Leendert van den Houten.
18 Februari - Wendell Wilkie, Amerikaans politicus.
25 Februari - Wouter van As.
29 Februari - Dina van den Houten.
8 April - Mary Pickford, Amerikaans filmactrice.
11 April - Pieter van den Houten.
13 April - Andries Lemson.
17 April - Arnoldus Johannes van den Houten.
6 Mei - Elizabeth van den Houten.
11 Mei - Margaret Rutherford, Brits actrice.
1 Juni - Amanoellah, koning van Afghanistan.
13 Juni - Basil Rathbone, acteur.
25 Juni - A.A. van Dijk.
27 Juni - Jan Jonker.
27 Juni - Elisabeth Kesteloo.
22 Juli - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Oostenrijks jurist en nazi politicus.
23 Juli - Haile Selassie, keizer van Ethiopië.
5 Augustus - Johannes Cornelis de Bruijn.
6 Augustus - Johanna de Jonge.
2 Augustus - Jack Warner, filmproducent.
12 Augustus - Andries van den Houten.
15 Augustus - Louis-Victor de Broglie, Frans natuurkundige.
4 September - Darius Milhaud, Frans componist.
11 September - Sophia Christina van As.
13 September - Sara van den Houten.
15 September - Catharina Kleijn.
17 September - Hendrik Andriessen, Nederlands componist.
9 Oktober - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russisch dichter.
24 Oktober - Adriana Anna Barbier.
2 November - Adriaantje Kievit.
5 November - John Haldane, Brits fysioloog.
13 November - Lientje den Engelsman.
13 November - Hermanus Johannes Korbee.
19 November - Jeremias Johannes Zweerus.
4 December - Francisco Franco, Spaans dictator.
6 December - Lina Carstens, Duits actrice.
11 December - Neeltje van den Houten.
12 Decmeber - Herman Potocnik Noordung, Sloveens ruimtevaartpionier.
15 December - J. Paul Getty, Amerikaans oliemagnaat.
31 December - Elizabeth Arentje van Veen.
Aaron Jacob Troast.
Oliver Hardy, Amerikaans komiek.
Alexander Aljechin, Russisch schaker.
Stefan Banach, Pools wiskundige.
Karl Niebuhr, theoloog.
Arthur Honegger, componist.
Darius Milhaud, componist.
Grant Wood, kunstenaar.
Pops Foster, bassist.
Henri Van Straten, Belgisch kunstenaar.
H. Weenink, Nederlands schaker.
Bernardus IJzerdraad, Nederlands verzetsstrijder (1893?).

Overleden:
19 Januari - Willemina van der Vlugt.
4 Februari - Teun van den Houten.
26 Februari - Willem de Wijs.
17 Maart - Pieter Konstant Dalebout.
16 Juni - Hendrica (Henderika, Rika, Rieka) van den Houten.
4 Augustus - Leendert van den Houten.
7 September - Elizabeth van den Houten.
6 Oktober - Alfred Tennyson, Brits schrijver.
6 December - Werner von Siemens, Duits uitvinder en industrieel.
21 December - Poulus (Paulus) Ruit.
Bahá'u'lláh, stichter van de Bahá'í-religie.
Richard Owen, Brits paleontoloog en anatoom.
Edouard Lalo, componist.
Jay Gould, Amerikaans spoorwegmagnaat.
Constantin Guys, Nederlands illustrator.
Willem Albert Scholten, Nederlands ondernemer.


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Events:
January 1 - Ellis Island begins accepting immigrants to the United States.
January 14 - Death of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the
throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Next in line is his younger
brother Prince George of Wales.
January 15 - James Naismith publishes the rules for basketball.
January 20 - At the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, the first official basketball game
is played.
February 12 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday
in the United States.
March 13 - Ernest Louis, a grandson of Queen Victoria becomes Grand Duke of Hesse
and the Rhine on the death of his father, Grand Duke Louis IV.
May 7 - The Cook Islands issue their first postage stamps.
May 22 - British conquest of Ijebu-Ode marks major extension of colonial power into
Nigerian interior.
May 24 - Prince George of Wales becomes Duke of York.
May 28 - In San Francisco, California, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
July 4-18 British general election: Unionist government loses its majority.
August 4 - The family of Lizzie Borden is found murdered in their Fall River,
Massachusetts home.
August 9 - Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
August 18 William Ewart Gladstone assumes British premiership at head of Liberal
government with Irish Nationalist Party support.
September 15 - Sergei Witte replaces Ivan Vishnegradksy as Russian finance minister.
October 12 - To mark 400 anniversary Columbus Day holiday, the "Pledge of Allegiance"
was first recited in unison by students in US public schools.
October 31 - Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
November 8 - U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland is elected over Benjamin
Harrison and James B. Weaver to win the second of his non-consecutive terms.
November 17 - French troops occupy Abomey, capital of kingdom of Dahomey.
December 5 - John Thompson becomes Canada's fourth prime minister.
Last open land rush is held in Oklahoma.
The Stanley Cup is donated by Sir Frederick Arthur.
Pennsauken is incorporated.

Births:
January 3 - J. R. R. Tolkien, British author (d. 1973).
January 6 - Jacoba Roggeband.
January 14 - Hal Roach, film producer (d. 1992).
January 15 - Rex Ingram, director, writer (d. 1950).
January 18 - Oliver Hardy, comedian, actor (d. 1957).
January 28 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (d. 1947).
January 30 - Krijn Leendert van den Houten.
January 31 - Eddie Cantor, actor, singer (d. 1964).
February 13 - Grant Wood, painter (d. 1942).
February 15 - James Forrestal, first United States Secretary of Defense (d. 1949).
February 18 - Wendell Wilkie, politician, Presidential candidate (d. 1944).
February 22 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, writer (d. 1950).
February 25 - Wouter van As.
February 27 - William Demarest, actor (d. 1983).
February 29 - Dina van den Houten.
March 10 - Arthur Honegger, composer (d. 1955).
March 10 - Gregory La Cava, director, producer, writer (d. 1952).
March 30 - Stefan Banach, great Polish mathematician (d. 1945).
March 11 - Raoul Walsh, film director (d. 1980).
April 2 - Jack Warner, Hollywood studio founder (d. 1978).
April 6 - Donald Wills Douglas, American industrialist (d. 1981).
April 6 - Lowell Thomas, travel writer (d. 1981).
April 8 - Mary Pickford, actress, studio founder (d. 1979).
April 11 - Pieter van den Houten.
April 12 - Johnny Dodds, jazz musician (d. 1940).
April 13 - Andries Lemson.
April 17 - Arnoldus Johannes van den Houten.
April 19 - Germaine Tailleferre, composer.
May 6 - Elizabeth van den Houten.
May 7 - Archibald MacLeish, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1982).
May 7 - Josip Broz Tito, president of Yugoslavia (d. 1980).
May 8 - Ezio Pinza, opera singer (d. 1957).
May 9 - Zita of Bourbon-Parma, empress of Austria-Hungary (d. 1989).
May 11 - Margaret Rutherford, actress (d. 1972).
May 12 - Fritz Kortner, director.
May 18 - Pops Foster, jazz musician (assumed birthdate) (d. 1969).
May 31 - Michel Kikoine, Belarus painter (d. 1968).
June 25 - A.A. van Dijk.
June 27 - Jan Jonker.
June 27 - Elisabeth Kesteloo.
July 23 - Haile Selassie I, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975).
August 5 - Johannes Cornelis de Bruijn.
August 6 - Johanna de Jonge.
August 12 - Andries van den Houten.
September 4 - Darius Milhaud, composer.
September 11 - Sophia Christina van As.
September 13 - Sara van den Houten.
September 15 - Catharina Kleijn.
October 9 - Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet.
October 23 - Gummo Marx, actor, comedian, Marx brothers (d. 1977).
October 24 - Adriana Anna Barbier.
October 28 - Dink Johnson, jazz musician (d. 1954).
October 31 - Alexander Alekhine, chess champion.
November 2 - Adriaantje Kievit.
November 5 - J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist.
November 13 - Lientje den Engelsman.
November 13 - Hermanus Johannes Korbee.
November 19 - Jeremias Johannes Zweerus.
December 2 - Leo Ornstein, composer and pianist (d. 2002).
December 4 - Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator, 1939 - 1975.
December 11 - Neeltje van den Houten.
December 12 - Herman Potocnik Noordung, Slovene astronautic pioneer and
rocket engineer (d. 1929).
December 31 - Elizabeth Arentje van Veen.
Aaron Jacob Troast.
Ernest Brastins born in Latvia, religious leader (Dievturiba).
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter.

Deaths:
January 14 - Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, second in line heir to the throne of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
January 19 - Willemina van der Vlugt.
January 21 - John Couch Adams, astronomer.
January 31 - Charles Spurgeon.
February 4 - Teun van den Houten.
February 11 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer.
February 26 - Willem de Wijs.
March 13 - Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and the Rhine.
March 17 - Pieter Konstant Dalebout.
March 26 - Walt Whitman, American poet.
April 25 - William Backhouse Astor, Jr., member of the Astor family.
April 26 - Sir Provo William Perry Wallis, British Admiral and naval hero.
May 29 - Bahaullah, Prophet-Founder of the Bahá'í Faith.
June 9 - William Stairs, Victorian explorer.
June 16 - Hendrica (Henderika, Rika, Rieka) van den Houten.
August 4 - Leendert van den Houten.
September 7 - Elizabeth van den Houten.
October 23 - Emin Pasha, German doctor, naturalist to Africa.
December 2 - Jay Gould, American financier.
December 6 - Werner von Siemens, German inventor and industrialist.
December 21 - Poulus (Paulus) Ruit.
Ernest Renan, French philologist and historian.


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