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Birthday July 14, 1897

• The temperature on July 14, 1897 was about 24.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%. 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.
  • 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.
  • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
  • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

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• 1893 » Clarence J. Brown, American publisher and politician, 36th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio († 1965)
• 1893 » Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author († 1952)
• 1894 » Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer († 1979)
• 1896 » Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish soldier and anarchist († 1936)
• 1898 » Happy Chandler, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky, second Commissioner of Baseball († 1991)
• 1901 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and academic († 1956)