Database Van Broekhoven » Cornelis Willem den Bakker (1895-????)

Birthday September 24, 1895

• The temperature on September 24, 1895 was about 11.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
  • March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
  • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Québec († 1956)
• 1893 » Blind Lemon Jefferson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1929)
• 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)