Family tree Engel-Van Mierlo » Johannes Cornelis van Grevenbroek (1899-????)

Birthday July 19, 1899

• The temperature on July 19, 1899 was about 19.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• 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 1899: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 19 » Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is formed.
  • February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
  • May 30 » Pearl Hart, a female outlaw of the Old West, robs a stage coach 30 miles southeast of Globe, Arizona.
  • July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
  • September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
  • November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

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• 1896 » A. J. Cronin, Scottish physician and novelist († 1981)
• 1896 » Bob Meusel, American baseball player and sailor († 1977)
• 1896 » Reginald Baker, English film producer († 1985)
• 1898 » Herbert Marcuse, German-American sociologist and philosopher († 1979)
• 1899 » Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay, Indian physician, author, poet, and playwright († 1979)
• 1902 » Samudrala Raghavacharya, Indian singer, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1968)