Eijsermans family tree » Andreas van Otterdijk (1895-????)

Birthday December 10, 1895

• The temperature on December 10, 1895 was about 5.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 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 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
  • April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Ray Collins, American actor († 1965)
• 1890 » László Bárdossy, Hungarian fascist politician and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary († 1946)
• 1891 » Arlie Mucks, American discus thrower and shot putter († 1967)
• 1891 » Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada († 1969)
• 1891 » Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1896 » Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director († 1948)