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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.
  • January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
  • May 28 » In San Francisco, John Muir organizes the Sierra Club.
  • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
  • September 22 » Lindal Railway Incident, providing inspiration for "The Lost Special" by A.C. Doyle and the TV serial Lost.

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)