Family tree Pierens-Raeman » Leon Edgard Joseph Lievens (1895-????)

Birthday January 2, 1895

• The temperature on January 2, 1895 was about -0.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
  • September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
  • December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Artur Rodziński, Polish-American conductor († 1958)
• 1892 » Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player († 1962)
• 1895 » Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat († 1948)
• 1896 » Dziga Vertov, Polish-Russian director and screenwriter († 1954)
• 1896 » Lawrence Wackett, Australian commander and engineer († 1982)
• 1897 » Theodore Plucknett, English legal historian († 1965)