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Birthday October 19, 1895

• The temperature on October 19, 1895 was about 8.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
  • January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
  • April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
  • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Frank Durbin, American soldier († 1999)
• 1895 » Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, and philosopher († 1990)
• 1896 » Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager († 1988)
• 1897 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar († 1994)
• 1899 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1900 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress († 1990)