Database Van Broekhoven » Helena Wilhelmina Balster (1896-????)

Birthday September 24, 1896

• The temperature on September 24, 1896 was about 10.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
  • May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
  • May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
  • September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
  • November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster († 1968)
• 1895 » André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)
• 1896 » F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer († 1940)
• 1898 » Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer († 1990)
• 1898 » Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1968)