Family tree Devos-Rigolle » Richard-Camile DEVOS (1893-????)

Birthday September 24, 1893

• The temperature on September 24, 1893 was about 8.6 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
  • September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
  • 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 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
  • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Mike González, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager († 1977)
• 1892 » Adélard Godbout, Canadian agronomist and politician, 15th Premier of Québec († 1956)
• 1893 » Blind Lemon Jefferson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1929)
• 1894 » Billy Bletcher, American actor, singer, and screenwriter († 1979)
• 1894 » Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer and sportscaster († 1968)
• 1895 » André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1988)