Eijsermans family tree » Wilhelmina Theresia van Nassau (1895-????)

Birthday March 31, 1895

• The temperature on March 31, 1895 was about 6.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • March 15 » Heian Shrine is founded.
  • May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
  • 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

• 1890 » Ben Adams, American jumper († 1961)
• 1890 » William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1891 » Victor Varconi, Hungarian-American actor and director († 1976)
• 1893 » Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor and manager († 1954)
• 1893 » Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German physician and historian († 1982)
• 1895 » Vardis Fisher, American author and academic († 1968)