Descendants Engbert Verbeek » Jacoba de ROOIJ (1896-????)

Birthday November 11, 1896

• The temperature on November 11, 1896 was about 4.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
  • 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

• 1894 » Beverly Bayne, American actress († 1982)
• 1895 » Wealthy Babcock, American mathematician and academic († 1990)
• 1896 » Carlos Eduardo Castañeda, Mexican-American historian († 1958)
• 1896 » Shirley Graham Du Bois, American author, playwright, composer, and activist († 1977)
• 1898 » René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1981)
• 1899 » Pat O'Brien, American actor († 1983)