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Birthday February 1, 1897

• The temperature on February 1, 1897 was about 0.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
  • July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
  • July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
  • August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » James P. Johnson, American pianist and composer († 1955)
• 1894 » John Ford, American director and producer († 1973)
• 1895 » Conn Smythe, Canadian businessman († 1980)
• 1897 » Denise Robins, English journalist and author († 1985)
• 1898 » Leila Denmark, American pediatrician and author († 2012)
• 1901 » Frank Buckles, American soldier († 2011)