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Birthday October 19, 1896

• The temperature on October 19, 1896 was about 3.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
  • February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
  • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
  • March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1895 » Frank Durbin, American soldier († 1999)
• 1895 » Lewis Mumford, American historian, sociologist, and philosopher († 1990)
• 1896 » Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player and manager († 1988)
• 1897 » Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar († 1994)
• 1899 » Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1974)
• 1900 » Erna Berger, German soprano and actress († 1990)