Family tree Jan Werkman » Aafke van der Laan (± 1894-1896)

Day of death April 5, 1896

• The temperature on April 5, 1896 was about 6.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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).
  • 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 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1891 » Johann Hermann Bauer, (b. 1861)
• 1900 » Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician, economist, and academic (b. 1822)
• 1900 » Osman Nuri Pasha, Ottoman field marshal and the hero of the Siege of Plevna in 1877 (b. 1832)
• 1901 » Angelo Messedaglia, Italian social scientist and statistician (b. 1820)
• 1902 » Hans Ernst August Buchner, German bacteriologist (b. 1850)