Family tree Oving » Johanna Aloysia van BUREN (1898-????)

Birthday July 5, 1898

• The temperature on July 5, 1898 was about 14.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
  • April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
  • June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
  • June 27 » The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
  • August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
  • August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Thomas Playford IV, Australian politician, 33rd Premier of South Australia († 1981)
• 1898 » Georgios Grivas, Greek general († 1974)
• 1899 » Marcel Achard, French playwright, screenwriter, and author († 1974)
• 1900 » Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal († 1987)
• 1900 » Yoshimaro Yamashina, Japanese ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology († 1989)
• 1901 » Julio Libonatti, Italian-Argentinian footballer († 1981)