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Birthday October 6, 1895

• The temperature on October 6, 1895 was about 13.7 °C. There was 14 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • 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.
  • March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Hendrik Adamson, Estonian poet and educator († 1946)
• 1893 » Meghnad Saha, Indian astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic († 1956)
• 1895 » Caroline Gordon, American author and critic († 1981)
• 1896 » David Howard, American film director († 1941)
• 1897 » Florence B. Seibert, American biochemist and academic († 1991)
• 1900 » Vivion Brewer, American activist and desegregationist († 1991)