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Birthday August 31, 1893

• The temperature on August 31, 1893 was about 15.5 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
  • 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.
  • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
  • 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.
  • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1893 » Lily Laskine, French harp player († 1988)
• 1894 » Albert Facey, Australian soldier and author († 1982)
• 1896 » Brian Edmund Baker, English Air Marshal († 1979)
• 1896 » Félix-Antoine Savard, Canadian priest and author († 1982)
• 1897 » Fredric March, American lieutenant, actor, and singer († 1975)