Family tree Eric Esterhuizen » Matthys Jacobus PRETORIUS (1896-????)
Personal data Matthys Jacobus PRETORIUS
- He was born on May 17, 1896.
- He was christened on September 6, 1896 in Lichtenburg.
- A child of Frederick Jacobus PRETORIUS and Anna Fredrika PAPENFUS
- This information was last updated on September 24, 2010.
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Birthday May 17, 1896
- The temperature on May 17, 1896 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
- January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
- February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
- June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
- November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
Christening day September 6, 1896
- The temperature on September 6, 1896 was about 14.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
- April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
- May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
- June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
- December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
- December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
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- 1893 » Frederick McKinley Jones, American inventor and entrepreneur († 1961)
- 1895 » Reinhold Saulmann, Estonian sprinter and bandy player († 1936)
- 1895 » Saul Adler, Belarusian-English captain and parasitologist († 1966)
- 1897 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1981)
- 1898 » A. J. Casson, Canadian painter († 1992)
- 1899 » Carmen de Icaza, Spanish writer († 1979)
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