Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Jan den Haring (1896-????)

Birthday March 12, 1896

• The temperature on March 12, 1896 was about 5.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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).
  • February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
  • March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
  • May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
  • August 27 » Anglo-Zanzibar War: The shortest war in world history (09:02 to 09:40), between the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
  • December 30 » Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1896 » Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1976)
• 1898 » Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician († 1984)
• 1898 » Tian Han, Chinese playwright († 1968)
• 1899 » Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer († 1955)
• 1900 » Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia († 1975)
• 1900 » Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete († 1972)