Family tree Menting » Maria Geertruida Rensen (1896-????)

Birthday April 21, 1896

• The temperature on April 21, 1896 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 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 year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
  • 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.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1889 » Marcel Boussac, French businessman († 1980)
• 1889 » Paul Karrer, Russian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1892 » Freddie Dixon, English motorcycle racer and racing driver († 1956)
• 1893 » Romeo Bertini, Italian runner († 1973)
• 1898 » Maurice Wilson, English soldier, pilot, and mountaineer († 1934)
• 1899 » Randall Thompson, American composer and academic († 1984)