Family tree Wicquart » Marcel Jules Joseph SCHARRE (1896-????)

Birthday June 20, 1896

• The temperature on June 20, 1896 was about 21.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
  • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, Italian soprano († 1951)
• 1893 » Wilhelm Zaisser, German soldier and politician († 1958)
• 1894 » Lloyd Hall, American chemist and academic († 1971)
• 1896 » Wilfrid Pelletier, Canadian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1982)
• 1897 » Elisabeth Hauptmann, German author and playwright († 1973)
• 1899 » Jean Moulin, French soldier and engineer († 1943)