Genealogy Brederoo » Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria Boers (1898-????)

Birthday August 31, 1898

• The temperature on August 31, 1898 was about 15.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1898: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 20 » U.S. President William McKinley signed a joint resolution to Congress for declaration of war against Spain, beginning the Spanish–American War.
  • April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
  • August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
  • September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
  • October 6 » Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the largest American music fraternity, is founded at the New England Conservatory of Music.
  • October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Albert Facey, Australian soldier and author († 1982)
• 1896 » Brian Edmund Baker, English Air Marshal († 1979)
• 1896 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author († 1982)
• 1897 » Fredric March, American lieutenant, actor, and singer († 1975)
• 1900 » Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist, attempted assassin of Benito Mussolini († 1943)
• 1902 » Géza Révész, Hungarian general and politician, Hungarian Minister of Defence († 1977)