Kramer Family Tree » Ole (Ola) Einarsen (Bratland) Brateng (1895-1960)

Birthday July 22, 1895

• The temperature on July 22, 1895 was about 16.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
  • 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.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Jack MacBryan, English cricketer and field hockey player († 1983)
• 1893 » Jesse Haines, American baseball player and coach († 1978)
• 1893 » Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist and author († 1990)
• 1895 » León de Greiff, Colombian poet, journalist, and diplomat († 1976)
• 1898 » Stephen Vincent Benét, American poet, short story writer, and novelist († 1943)
• 1899 » Sobhuza II of Swaziland († 1982)