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Birthday May 23, 1895

• The temperature on May 23, 1895 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
  • October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
  • October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1892 » Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British peer and grandfather of Diana Spencer († 1975)
• 1896 » Felix Steiner, Russian-German SS officer († 1966)
• 1897 » Jimmie Guthrie, Scottish motorcycle racer († 1937)
• 1898 » Josef Terboven, German soldier and politician († 1945)
• 1898 » Scott O'Dell, American soldier, journalist, and author († 1989)