Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmus Waltherus van den Braak (1896-????)

Birthday August 24, 1896

• The temperature on August 24, 1896 was about 16.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
  • September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)