Genealogieën vanuit de Antwerpse Rupelstreek » Augusta Joanna Coletta Francisca Lamot (1895-????)

Birthday January 10, 1895

• The temperature on January 10, 1895 was about -1.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 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 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
  • May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Dumas Malone, American historian and author († 1986)
• 1892 » Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish soldier, journalist, and author († 1974)
• 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)