Genealogy Hoekstra, Van Berkel, Oversluizen en Van Roon » Jean Francois van Eijsden (1896-????)

Birthday November 14, 1896

• The temperature on November 14, 1896 was about 5.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
  • May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
  • May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
  • 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.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
  • September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India († 1964)
• 1891 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1895 » Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician and psychiatrist († 1972)
• 1897 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic († 1946)
• 1898 » Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic († 1944)
• 1900 » Aaron Copland, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1990)