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Birthday May 16, 1895

• The temperature on May 16, 1895 was about 8.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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.
  • June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
  • September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
  • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Osgood Perkins, American actor († 1937)
• 1894 » Walter Yust, American journalist and writer († 1960)
• 1897 » Zvi Sliternik, Israeli entomologist and academic († 1994)
• 1898 » Desanka Maksimović, Serbian poet and academic († 1993)
• 1898 » Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese director and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1898 » Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter († 1980)