Hjort family tree » Mary Marie Erdmann (1897-????)

Birthday November 7, 1897

• The temperature on November 7, 1897 was about 10.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
  • May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
  • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
  • September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
  • December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Esdras Minville, Canadian economist and sociologist († 1975)
• 1897 » Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator († 1976)
• 1897 » Herman J. Mankiewicz, American director, producer, and screenwriter († 1953)
• 1898 » Margaret Morris, American actress († 1968)
• 1898 » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic († 1963)
• 1899 » Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-Israeli journalist and poet († 1954)