Genealogy De Vos-Verschuur » Hubertus van den Broek (1895-????)

Birthday July 5, 1895

• The temperature on July 5, 1895 was about 17.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 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 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 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • 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.
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1893 » Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer († 1971)
• 1893 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter († 1976)
• 1894 » Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director († 1973)
• 1896 » Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia († 1981)
• 1898 » Georgios Grivas, Greek general († 1974)