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Birthday September 12, 1896

• The temperature on September 12, 1896 was about 16.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 18 » An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • 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.
  • September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
  • November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher († 1976)
• 1894 » Kyuichi Tokuda, Japanese lawyer and politician († 1953)
• 1895 » Freymóður Jóhannsson, Icelandic painter and composer († 1973)
• 1897 » Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1956)
• 1897 » Walter B. Gibson, American magician and author († 1985)
• 1898 » Salvador Bacarisse, Spanish composer († 1963)