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Birthday March 3, 1895

• The temperature on March 3, 1895 was about -2.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Damaskinos of Athens, Greek archbishop († 1949)
• 1893 » Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and potter († 1998)
• 1895 » Matthew Ridgway, American general († 1993)
• 1895 » Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1973)
• 1898 » Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician and academic († 1962)
• 1900 » Edna Best, British stage and film actress, appeared on early television in 1938 († 1974)