Database Schaap » Geertje Schaap (1898-????)

Birthday August 18, 1898

• The temperature on August 18, 1898 was about 18.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
  • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
  • June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
  • July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
  • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
  • November 3 » France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Jack Pickford, Canadian-American actor and director († 1933)
• 1898 » Clemente Biondetti, Italian race car driver († 1955)
• 1900 » Ruth Bonner, Soviet Communist activist, sentenced to a labor camp during Joseph Stalin's Great Purge († 1987)
• 1900 » Ruth Norman, American religious leader († 1993)
• 1902 » Adamson-Eric, Estonian painter († 1968)
• 1902 » Margaret Murie, American environmentalist and author († 2003)