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Birthday August 22, 1892

• The temperature on August 22, 1892 was about 18.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
  • February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
  • March 18 » Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup.
  • October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
  • October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Cecil Kellaway, South African actor († 1973)
• 1891 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer († 1983)
• 1891 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor († 1973)
• 1893 » Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist († 1967)
• 1893 » Ernest H. Volwiler, American chemist († 1992)
• 1893 » Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army († 1977)