Eijsermans family tree » Petronella Johanna van Miert (1895-????)

Birthday July 20, 1895

• The temperature on July 20, 1895 was about 17.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • 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.
  • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
  • October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter († 1964)
• 1890 » Julie Vinter Hansen, Danish-Swiss astronomer and academic († 1960)
• 1890 » Verna Felton, American actress († 1966)
• 1893 » George Llewelyn Davies, English soldier († 1915)
• 1895 » László Moholy-Nagy, Hungarian painter, photographer, and sculptor († 1946)
• 1897 » Tadeusz Reichstein, Polish-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1996)