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Birthday November 14, 1897

• The temperature on November 14, 1897 was about 17.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 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 Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1897: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
  • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
  • September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
  • December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
  • December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1895 » Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician and psychiatrist († 1972)
• 1897 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic († 1946)
• 1898 » Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic († 1944)
• 1900 » Aaron Copland, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1990)
• 1904 » Harold Haley, American lawyer and judge († 1970)