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Birthday September 12, 1896

• The temperature on September 12, 1896 was about 16.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 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.
  • March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
  • 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 » Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher († 1976)
• 1894 » Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician († 1953)
• 1895 » Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer († 1973)
• 1897 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1956)
• 1897 » Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author († 1985)
• 1898 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer († 1963)