Olson's Tree » George Washington McLain (1895-????)

Birthday September 3, 1895

• The temperature on September 3, 1895 was about 18.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
  • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
  • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Andrey Dikiy, Russian-American journalist, historian, and politician († 1977)
• 1897 » Sally Benson, American author and screenwriter († 1972)
• 1899 » Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australian virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1985)
• 1900 » Percy Chapman, English cricketer († 1961)
• 1900 » Urho Kekkonen, Finnish journalist, lawyer, and politician, 8th President of Finland († 1986)
• 1901 » Eduard van Beinum, Dutch violinist, pianist, and conductor († 1959)