Genealogy Van der Valk en van der Valck » van der Valk (1895)

Birthday April 1, 1895

• The temperature on April 1, 1895 was about 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist († 1940)
• 1893 » Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress († 1980)
• 1895 » Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse († 1984)
• 1898 » William James Sidis, Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian († 1944)
• 1899 » Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian academic and politician († 1968)
• 1900 » Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver († 1981)