Eijsermans family tree » Franciscus Joannes van Broekhoven (1895-????)

Birthday April 23, 1895

• The temperature on April 23, 1895 was about 11.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 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.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
  • 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

• 1893 » Frank Borzage, American actor and director († 1952)
• 1895 » Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author and director († 1982)
• 1897 » Folke Jansson, American general († 1965)
• 1897 » Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)
• 1898 » Lucius D. Clay, American general († 1978)
• 1899 » Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1979)