Family tree Van den Wyngaert » Maria Ludovica Symons (1896-????)

Birthday May 20, 1896

• The temperature on May 20, 1896 was about 12.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
  • January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
  • 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.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Indian guru and scholar († 1994)
• 1895 » R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire and Supermarine S.6B († 1937)
• 1897 » Diego Abad de Santillán, Spanish economist and author († 1983)
• 1897 » Malcolm Nokes, English hammer and discus thrower († 1986)
• 1898 » Eduard Ole, Estonian painter († 1995)
• 1899 » Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor († 1969)