The Forgotten Ones » Samuel Alonzo Kirk (1896-1973)

Birthday December 17, 1896

• The temperature on December 17, 1896 was about 0.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
  • May 26 » Charles Dow publishes the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
  • June 15 » The deadliest tsunami in Japan's history kills more than 22,000 people.
  • July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1894 » Arthur Fiedler, American conductor († 1979)
• 1894 » Patrick Flynn, Irish-American runner and soldier († 1969)
• 1894 » Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands († 1977)
• 1895 » Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player († 1967)
• 1898 » Loren Murchison, American sprinter († 1979)