Family tree Dijkxhoorn » Johanna Maria Konijnenbelt (1893-1894)

Birthday July 17, 1893

• The temperature on July 17, 1893 was about 18.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
  • March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
  • July 11 » The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kōkichi Mikimoto.
  • August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
  • August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1889 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author († 1970)
• 1894 » Georges Lemaître, Belgian priest, astronomer, and cosmologist († 1966)
• 1896 » Rupert Atkinson, English RAF officer († 1919)
• 1898 » Berenice Abbott, American photographer († 1991)
• 1898 » Osmond Borradaile, Canadian soldier and cinematographer († 1999)