Family tree Peter de Jong » Johanna Maria Paula "Johanna" Koekebacker (1896-????)

Birthday November 9, 1896

• The temperature on November 9, 1896 was about 2.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
  • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • May 27 » The F4-strength St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing over $10-million in damage.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
  • November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Louisa E. Rhine, American botanist and parapsychologist († 1983)
• 1894 » Dietrich von Choltitz, General of the German Army during World War II († 1966)
• 1894 » Mae Marsh, American actress († 1968)
• 1897 » Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player († 1941)
• 1897 » Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1978)
• 1900 » Oskar Loorits, Estonian author and academic († 1961)