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Birthday March 7, 1896

• The temperature on March 7, 1896 was about 5.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • January 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
  • 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 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
  • 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.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies († 1978)
• 1888 » William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist and author († 1977)
• 1894 » Ana María O'Neill, Puerto Rican scholar and activist († 1981)
• 1895 » Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist († 1988)
• 1902 » Heinz Rühmann, German actor († 1994)
• 1903 » Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist († 1970)