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Birthday November 28, 1895

• The temperature on November 28, 1895 was about 2.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. 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 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • 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.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • 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

• 1894 » Brooks Atkinson, American theatre critic († 1984)
• 1894 » Henry Hazlitt, American economist and philosopher († 1993)
• 1895 » José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor († 1980)
• 1896 » Dawn Powell, American author and playwright († 1965)
• 1896 » Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress († 1994)
• 1898 » İhap Hulusi Görey, Turkish graphic artist († 1986)