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Birthday February 21, 1892

• The temperature on February 21, 1892 was about 2.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 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 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
  • July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
  • July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
  • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
  • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Clemence Dane, English author and playwright († 1965)
• 1892 » Harry Stack Sullivan, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst († 1949)
• 1893 » Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist († 1987)
• 1893 » Celia Lovsky, Austrian-American actress († 1979)
• 1894 » Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar, Indian chemist and academic († 1955)
• 1895 » Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1976)