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Birthday May 12, 1896

• The temperature on May 12, 1896 was about 17.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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.
  • 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.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Fritz Kortner, Austrian-German actor and director († 1970)
• 1895 » Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author († 1986)
• 1895 » William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1899 » Abelardo L. Rodríguez, substitute president of Mexico († 1967)
• 1900 » Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress († 1971)
• 1901 » The Duke of Paducah, American country comedian, radio host and banjo player († 1986)