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Birthday September 24, 1896

• The temperature on September 24, 1896 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
  • March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
  • April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
  • December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster († 1968)
• 1895 » André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1896 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer († 1940)
• 1898 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer († 1990)
• 1898 » Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)