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Born on Tuesday April 18, 1893
Died on Tuesday April 18, 1893

Source: Delpher (KB | national library) Newspapers from April 18, 1893 at Delpher


Born on April 18
  • 1888 » Duffy Lewis, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1979)
  • 1889 » Jessie Street, Australian activist († 1970)
  • 1892 » Eugene Houdry, French-American mechanical engineer and inventor († 1962)
  • 1893 » Violette Morris, French shot putter and discus thrower († 1944)
  • 1897 » Ardito Desio, Italian geologist and cartographer († 2001)
  • 1897 » Per-Erik Hedlund, Swedish skier († 1975)
  • 1898 » Patrick Hennessy, Irish soldier and businessman († 1981)
  • 1900 » Bertha Isaacs, Bahamian teacher, tennis player, politician and women's rights activist († 1997)
  • 1901 » Al Lewis, American songwriter († 1967)
  • 1901 » László Németh, Hungarian dentist, author, and playwright († 1975)

Died on April 18

Names that were popular for boys in 1893
  1. Johannes
  2. Jan
  3. Cornelis
  4. Hendrik
  5. Willem
  6. Pieter
  7. Gerrit
  8. Jacob
  9. Petrus
  10. Jacobus
  11. Adrianus
  12. Dirk
  13. Arie
  14. Gerardus
  15. Hendrikus
  16. Albert
Names that were popular for girls in 1893
  1. Maria
  2. Johanna
  3. Anna
  4. Cornelia
  5. Hendrika
  6. Elisabeth
  7. Wilhelmina
  8. Catharina
  9. Adriana
  10. Aaltje
  11. Jacoba
  12. Grietje
  13. Geertruida
  14. Neeltje
  15. Trijntje
  16. Petronella

Source: Wikipedia Historical events 1893
  • 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.
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
  • June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
  • 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 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
  • October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
Weather April 18, 1893

The temperature on April 18, 1893 was about 6.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%.

Source: KNMI