Family tree of the Gorters from Groningen and related families » NN van KLAARBERGEN (1893)

Birthday November 28, 1893

• The temperature on November 28, 1893 was about 6.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
  • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1891 » Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician († 1949)
• 1891 » Mabel Alvarez, American painter († 1985)
• 1894 » Brooks Atkinson, American theatre critic († 1984)
• 1894 » Henry Hazlitt, American economist and philosopher († 1993)
• 1895 » José Iturbi, Spanish pianist and conductor († 1980)
• 1896 » Dawn Powell, American author and playwright († 1965)