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Birthday April 1, 1895

• The temperature on April 1, 1895 was about 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • 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.
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
  • November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » K. B. Hedgewar, Indian physician and activist († 1940)
• 1893 » Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress († 1980)
• 1895 » Alberta Hunter, African-American singer-songwriter and nurse († 1984)
• 1898 » William James Sidis, Ukrainian-Russian Jewish American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian († 1944)
• 1899 » Gustavs Celmiņš, Latvian academic and politician († 1968)
• 1900 » Stefanie Clausen, Danish Olympic diver († 1981)