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Birthday July 21, 1895

• The temperature on July 21, 1895 was about 19.0 °C. The airpressure was 75 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 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • 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.
  • April 8 » In Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. the Supreme Court of the United States declares unapportioned income tax to be unconstitutional.
  • June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Julius Saaristo, Finnish javelin thrower and soldier († 1969)
• 1893 » Hans Fallada, German author († 1947)
• 1896 » Sophie Bledsoe Aberle, Native American anthropologist, physician and nutritionist († 1996)
• 1898 » Sara Carter, American singer-songwriter († 1979)
• 1899 » Ernest Hemingway, American novelist, short story writer, and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1961)
• 1899 » Hart Crane, American poet († 1932)