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Birthday February 22, 1895

• The temperature on February 22, 1895 was about 1.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 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.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • February 1 » Fountains Valley, Pretoria, the oldest nature reserve in Africa, is proclaimed by President Paul Kruger.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • 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 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Vlas Chubar, Russian economist and politician († 1939)
• 1892 » Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright († 1950)
• 1895 » Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician († 1979)
• 1897 » Karol Świerczewski, Polish general († 1947)
• 1899 » George O'Hara, American actor and screenwriter († 1966)
• 1900 » Luis Buñuel, Spanish-Mexican director and producer († 1983)