Descendants Engbert Verbeek » Beatrix Maria Adriana van der KNAAP (1896-????)

Birthday July 2, 1896

• The temperature on July 2, 1896 was about 14.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
  • March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • May 18 » Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic on Khodynka Field in Moscow during the festivities of the coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II results in the deaths of 1,389 people.
  • September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
  • 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 » Ralph Hancock, Welsh gardener and author († 1950)
• 1900 » Sophie Harris, English costume and scenic designer for theatre and opera († 1966)
• 1900 » Tyrone Guthrie, English actor and director († 1971)
• 1902 » Germaine Thyssens-Valentin, Dutch-French pianist († 1987)
• 1902 » K. Kanapathypillai, Sri Lankan author and academic († 1968)
• 1903 » Alec Douglas-Home, English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom († 1995)