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Birthday September 10, 1895

• The temperature on September 10, 1895 was about 16.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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.
  • February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
  • April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
  • June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
  • August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
  • October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
  • 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

• 1894 » Alexander Dovzhenko, Soviet screenwriter/producer/director of Ukrainian origin († 1956)
• 1895 » Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Indian poet and author († 1976)
• 1896 » Adele Astaire, American actress and dancer († 1981)
• 1896 » Robert Taschereau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 11th Chief Justice of Canada († 1970)
• 1896 » Ye Ting, Chinese general († 1946)
• 1897 » Georges Bataille, French philosopher, novelist, and poet († 1962)