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Birthday November 14, 1893

• The temperature on November 14, 1893 was about 2.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 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 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
  • 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 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.

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• 1889 » Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India († 1964)
• 1891 » Frederick Banting, Canadian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1941)
• 1895 » Walter Jackson Freeman II, American physician and psychiatrist († 1972)
• 1897 » John Steuart Curry, American painter and academic († 1946)
• 1898 » Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic († 1944)
• 1900 » Aaron Copland, American composer, conductor, and educator († 1990)