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Birthday April 17, 1893

• The temperature on April 17, 1893 was about 5.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
  • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
  • September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
  • October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » George Adamski, Polish-American ufologist and author († 1965)
• 1895 » Robert Dean Frisbie, American soldier and author († 1948)
• 1896 » Señor Wences, Spanish-American ventriloquist († 1999)
• 1897 » Edouard Wyss-Dunant, Swiss physician and mountaineer († 1983)
• 1897 » Nisargadatta Maharaj, Indian philosopher and educator († 1981)
• 1897 » Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright († 1975)