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Birthday January 10, 1896

• The temperature on January 10, 1896 was about -1.3 °C. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
  • January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
  • May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
  • June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Dumas Malone, American historian and author († 1986)
• 1893 » Albert Jacka, Australian captain, Victoria Cross recipient († 1932)
• 1894 » Pingali Lakshmikantam, Indian poet and author († 1972)
• 1895 » Percy Cerutty, Australian athletics coach († 1975)
• 1896 » Yong Mun Sen, Malaysian watercolour painter († 1962)
• 1898 » Katharine Burr Blodgett, American physicist and engineer († 1979)