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Birthday April 15, 1896

• The temperature on April 15, 1896 was about 7.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • April 6 » In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
  • April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
  • June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
  • September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
  • November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1894 » Bessie Smith, African-American singer and actress († 1937)
• 1894 » Nikita Khrushchev, Russian general and politician, 7th Premier of the Soviet Union († 1971)
• 1895 » Abigail Mejia, Dominican feminist activist, nationalist, literary critic and educator († 1941)
• 1895 » Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player († 1980)
• 1896 » Nikolay Semyonov, Russian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1986)
• 1898 » Harry Edward, Guyanese-English sprinter († 1973)