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Birthday April 23, 1892

• The temperature on April 23, 1892 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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.
  • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
  • July 7 » The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
  • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
  • November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
  • December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada († 1967)
• 1889 » Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral († 1942)
• 1893 » Frank Borzage, American actor and director († 1952)
• 1895 » Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author and director († 1982)
• 1897 » Folke Jansson, American general († 1965)
• 1897 » Lester B. Pearson, Canadian historian and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Canada, Nobel Prize laureate († 1972)