Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België » J. Gabriel Keppenne (1897-????)

Birthday February 21, 1897

• The temperature on February 21, 1897 was about 6.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
  • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
  • December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
  • December 9 » Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in Paris.
  • December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist († 1987)
• 1893 » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress († 1979)
• 1894 » Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic († 1955)
• 1895 » Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)
• 1896 » Nirala, Indian poet and author († 1961)
• 1900 » Jeanne Aubert, French singer and actress († 1988)