Family tree of Spijk and her many ancestors » Hilje Holtke (1896-????)

Birthday October 11, 1896

• The temperature on October 11, 1896 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
  • March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
  • May 18 » The United States Supreme Court rules in Plessy v. Ferguson that the "separate but equal" doctrine is constitutional.
  • July 28 » The city of Miami, Florida is incorporated.
  • December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
  • December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » A. V. Kulasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, lawyer, and politician († 1978)
• 1894 » Julius Kuperjanov, Estonian educator and lieutenant († 1919)
• 1896 » Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and theorist († 1982)
• 1897 » Nathan Farragut Twining, American general († 1982)
• 1899 » Eddie Dyer, American baseball player and manager († 1964)
• 1901 » Masanobu Tsuji, Japanese colonel and politician († 1961)