Family tree Van Willigen » Johanna Cornelis Oppitz (1895-????)

Birthday March 1, 1895

• The temperature on March 1, 1895 was about 2.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 1895: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
  • June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
  • June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
  • December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier († 1940)
• 1892 » Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator († 1927)
• 1893 » Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright († 1968)
• 1896 » Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor († 1960)
• 1896 » Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer († 1942)
• 1899 » Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer († 1972)