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Birthday August 11, 1895

• The temperature on August 11, 1895 was about 18.8 °C. There was 12 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 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 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
  • 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.
  • May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
  • November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and educator († 1962)
• 1892 » Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese author († 1962)
• 1892 » Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet and linguist († 1978)
• 1897 » Enid Blyton, English author, poet, and educator († 1968)
• 1897 » Louise Bogan, American poet and critic († 1970)
• 1898 » Peter Mohr Dam, Faroese educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands († 1968)