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Birthday October 9, 1895

• The temperature on October 9, 1895 was about 12.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
  • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
  • June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • 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 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1893 » Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer († 1945)
• 1897 » M. Bhaktavatsalam, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Chief Minister of Madras State († 1987)
• 1898 » Joe Sewell, American baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame († 1990)
• 1898 » Tawfiq al-Hakim, Egyptian author and playwright († 1987)
• 1899 » Bruce Catton, American historian and author († 1978)