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Birthday August 4, 1895

• The temperature on August 4, 1895 was about 14.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 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.
  • March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
  • March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
  • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
  • May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
  • November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
  • 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

• 1890 » Dolf Luque, Cuban baseball player and manager († 1957)
• 1893 » Fritz Gause, German historian and curator († 1973)
• 1898 » Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer († 1975)
• 1899 » Ezra Taft Benson, American religious leader, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints († 1994)
• 1900 » Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom († 2002)
• 1901 » Louis Armstrong, American trumpet player and singer († 1971)