Parentele of Geurt Jacobs » Dirk van Hemel (1896-????)

Birthday June 3, 1896

• The temperature on June 3, 1896 was about 24.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
  • November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1897 » Memphis Minnie, American singer-songwriter († 1973)
• 1899 » Georg von Békésy, Hungarian-American biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1900 » Adelaide Ames, American astronomer and academic († 1932)
• 1900 » Leo Picard, German-Israeli geologist and academic († 1997)
• 1901 » Maurice Evans, English actor († 1989)
• 1901 » Zhang Xueliang, Chinese general and warlord († 2001)