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Birthday December 28, 1895

• The temperature on December 28, 1895 was about -7.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. 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.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
  • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1890 » Quincy Wright, American political scientist, historian, and academic († 1970)
• 1895 » Carol Ryrie Brink, American author and playwright († 1981)
• 1898 » Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic († 1957)
• 1898 » Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral († 1947)
• 1902 » Mortimer J. Adler, American philosopher and author († 2001)