Family tree van Walter Planije en Everarda de Winter met (teveel) vertakkingen » Abraham Albertus Owel (1897-????)

Birthday April 5, 1897

• The temperature on April 5, 1897 was about 4.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 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 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
  • February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
  • April 18 » The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Ottoman Empire.
  • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
  • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Hans Hüttig, German SS officer († 1980)
• 1894 » Lawrence Dale Bell, American industrialist and founder of Bell Aircraft Corporation († 1956)
• 1895 » Mike O'Dowd, American boxer († 1957)
• 1896 » Einar Lundborg, Swedish aviator († 1931)
• 1897 » Hans Schuberth, German politician († 1976)
• 1899 » Alfred Blalock, American surgeon and academic († 1964)