Bidprentjesverzameling Stichting De Oude Schoenendoos » Johannes Franciscus de Hoog (1896-????)

Birthday July 29, 1896

• The temperature on July 29, 1896 was about 17.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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.
  • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
  • March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
  • March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
  • 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.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » William Powell, American actor and singer († 1984)
• 1896 » Maria L. de Hernández, Mexican-American rights activist († 1986)
• 1897 » Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general († 1983)
• 1898 » Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate († 1988)
• 1899 » Walter Beall, American baseball player († 1959)
• 1900 » Mary V. Austin, Australian community worker and political activist († 1986)