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Birthday January 5, 1893

• The temperature on January 5, 1893 was about -8.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
  • January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
  • March 1 » Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • 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.
  • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1885 » Humbert Wolfe, Italian-English poet and civil servant († 1940)
• 1886 » Markus Reiner, Israeli physicist and engineer († 1976)
• 1892 » Agnes von Kurowsky, American nurse († 1984)
• 1893 » Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian-American guru and philosopher († 1952)
• 1897 » Kiyoshi Miki, Japanese philosopher and author († 1945)
• 1900 » Yves Tanguy, French-American painter († 1955)