Family tree Koning » Fennechien Ensing (1896-????)

Birthday October 19, 1896

• The temperature on October 19, 1896 was about 3.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 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.
  • May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
  • May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
  • December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Frank Durbin, American soldier († 1999)
• 1895 » Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, and philosopher († 1990)
• 1896 » Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager († 1988)
• 1897 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar († 1994)
• 1899 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1900 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress († 1990)