Stamboom Boens » Hector Maurice JOYE (1897-????)

Birthday October 6, 1897

• The temperature on October 6, 1897 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
  • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
  • August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
  • September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
  • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1897 » Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic († 1991)
• 1900 » Stan Nichols, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist († 1991)
• 1900 » Willy Merkl, German mountaineer († 1934)