Family tree De Backer - Evers » Clement Van Stappen (1893-1893)

Birthday August 22, 1893

• The temperature on August 22, 1893 was about 20.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
  • February 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
  • March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • April 6 » Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.
  • June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
  • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer († 1983)
• 1891 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor († 1973)
• 1893 » Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist († 1967)
• 1893 » Ernest H. Volwiler, American chemist († 1992)
• 1893 » Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army († 1977)
• 1895 » László Almásy, Hungarian captain, pilot, and explorer († 1951)