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Birthday March 12, 1893

• The temperature on March 12, 1893 was about 6.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
  • November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
  • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
  • December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor († 1965)
• 1888 » Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist († 1965)
• 1890 » Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player († 1976)
• 1896 » Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician († 1976)
• 1898 » Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician († 1984)
• 1898 » Tian Han, Chinese playwright († 1968)