Lazarus tree » Hersz Plawner (1896-????)

Birthday September 16, 1896

• The temperature on September 16, 1896 was about 16.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
  • December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1893 » Alexander Korda, Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter († 1956)
• 1895 » Zainal Abidin Ahmad, Malaysian author and scholar († 1973)
• 1897 » Milt Franklyn, American composer († 1962)
• 1898 » H. A. Rey, American author and illustrator, co-created Curious George († 1977)
• 1899 » Hans Swarowsky, Hungarian-Austrian conductor and educator († 1975)