Family tree Frieling-Van Halteren » Geertruida Everdina Kuster (1895-????)

Birthday August 26, 1895

• The temperature on August 26, 1895 was about 15.0 °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 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Acharya Chatursen Shastri, Indian author and playwright († 1960)
• 1894 » Sparky Adams, American baseball player and farmer († 1989)
• 1896 » Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian soldier and politician († 1990)
• 1897 » Yun Posun, South Korean activist and politician, 2nd President of South Korea († 1990)
• 1898 » Peggy Guggenheim, American-Italian art collector and philanthropist († 1979)
• 1900 » Margaret Utinsky, American nurse, recipient of the Medal of Freedom († 1970)