Genealogy Harssema » (Stillborn) TEYEMA (1896-1896)

Birthday April 28, 1896

• The temperature on April 28, 1896 was about 11.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
  • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • 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 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter († 1948)
• 1896 » Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet and critic († 1963)
• 1897 » Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China († 1986)
• 1900 » Alice Berry, Australian activist († 1978)
• 1900 » Heinrich Müller, German SS officer († 1945)
• 1900 » Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer and academic († 1992)