Family tree Erik Develter » Wilhelmina Maria de Rooij (1896-????)

Birthday July 19, 1896

• The temperature on July 19, 1896 was about 17.3 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
  • 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 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Aleksandr Khinchin, Russian mathematician and academic († 1959)
• 1894 » Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bangladeshi-Pakistani politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan († 1965)
• 1895 » Xu Beihong, Chinese painter and academic († 1953)
• 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)