Eijsermans family tree » Catharina Wilhelmina Maria van Hout (1895-????)

Birthday August 12, 1895

• The temperature on August 12, 1895 was about 18.7 °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 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
  • October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Zerna Sharp, American author and educator († 1981)
• 1891 » C. E. M. Joad, English philosopher and academic († 1953)
• 1891 » John McDermott, American golfer († 1971)
• 1892 » Alfred Lunt, American actor and director († 1977)
• 1897 » Maurice Fernandes, Guyanese cricketer († 1981)
• 1899 » Ben Sealey, Trinidadian cricketer († 1963)