Family tree R. Kalfsvel » Pieter Muts (1895-????)

Birthday August 24, 1895

• The temperature on August 24, 1895 was about 19.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
  • October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Haim Ernst Wertheimer, German-Israeli biochemist and academic († 1978)
• 1895 » Richard Cushing, American cardinal († 1970)
• 1897 » Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter, and publisher († 1954)
• 1898 » Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, literary critic († 1989)
• 1899 » Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1983)
• 1899 » Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator († 1986)