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Birthday July 3, 1896

• The temperature on July 3, 1896 was about 16.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
  • February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
  • March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
  • August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
  • November 27 » Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss is first performed.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Sándor Bortnyik, Hungarian painter and graphic designer († 1976)
• 1896 » Doris Lloyd, English actress († 1968)
• 1897 » Jesse Douglas, American mathematician and academic († 1965)
• 1898 » Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece († 1982)
• 1900 » Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter († 1987)
• 1901 » Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer († 1953)