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Birthday October 3, 1896

• The temperature on October 3, 1896 was about 11.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
  • 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.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco († 1982)
• 1895 » Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet († 1969)
• 1895 » Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet († 1925)
• 1896 » Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman († 1961)
• 1896 » Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic († 1987)
• 1897 » Louis Aragon, French author and poet († 1982)