Eijsermans family tree » Anna Maria Peels (1897-????)

Birthday October 19, 1897

• The temperature on October 19, 1897 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 99%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
  • May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
  • July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
  • August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
  • September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1895 » Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, and philosopher († 1990)
• 1896 » Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager († 1988)
• 1897 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar († 1994)
• 1899 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1900 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress († 1990)