Stamboom Arienne Gijsen » Martina Maria Lamberdina van der Klaauw (1895-????)

Birthday November 18, 1895

• The temperature on November 18, 1895 was about 4.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
  • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
  • May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
  • September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
  • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
  • November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Stanislav Kosior, Polish-Russian politician († 1939)
• 1891 » Gio Ponti, Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer, artist, and publisher.(† 1979)
• 1897 » Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1899 » Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor († 1985)
• 1899 » Howard Thurman, American author, philosopher and civil rights activist († 1981)
• 1901 » George Gallup, American statistician and academic († 1984)