Family tree Smit, Zimmermann » Clarence Leroy Van Cleef (1895-± 1948)

Birthday February 14, 1895

• The temperature on February 14, 1895 was about -8.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Radola Gajda, Czech commander and politician († 1948)
• 1894 » Jack Benny, American actor and producer († 1974)
• 1895 » Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist († 1973)
• 1895 » Wilhelm Burgdorf, German general († 1945)
• 1898 » Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and explorer († 1977)
• 1898 » Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-American physicist and astronomer († 1974)