Family tree van Frances Vraets en Guus Roijen » Maria Gertrudis Philiomena Ramaekers (1896-????)

Birthday January 20, 1896

• The temperature on January 20, 1896 was about -0.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • 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 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
  • August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
  • December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper († 1946)
• 1894 » Harold Gray, American cartoonist, created Little Orphan Annie († 1968)
• 1894 » Walter Piston, American composer, theorist, and academic († 1976)
• 1895 » Gábor Szegő, Hungarian mathematician and academic († 1985)
• 1896 » George Burns, American actor, comedian, and producer († 1996)
• 1898 » U Razak, Burmese educator and politician († 1947)