Family tree Van Dijk » Wilhelmus Norbertus Josephus Ketelaars (1897-????)

Birthday July 14, 1897

• The temperature on July 14, 1897 was about 24.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 39%. 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.
  • April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
  • May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
  • July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
  • 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.
  • November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
  • December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1893 » Clarence J. Brown, American publisher and politician, 36th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio († 1965)
• 1893 » Garimella Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author († 1952)
• 1894 » Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer († 1979)
• 1896 » Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish soldier and anarchist († 1936)
• 1898 » Happy Chandler, American lawyer and politician, 49th Governor of Kentucky, second Commissioner of Baseball († 1991)
• 1901 » Gerald Finzi, English composer and academic († 1956)