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Birthday April 8, 1896

• The temperature on April 8, 1896 was about 10.2 °C. The airpressure was 77 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 1896: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.
  • December 10 » Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded United Artists († 1979)
• 1892 » Richard Neutra, Austrian-American architect, designed the Los Angeles County Hall of Records († 1970)
• 1896 » Yip Harburg, American composer († 1981)
• 1900 » Marie Byles, Australian solicitor († 1979)
• 1902 » Andrew Irvine, English mountaineer and explorer († 1924)
• 1902 » Maria Maksakova Sr., Russian soprano († 1974)