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Birthday August 23, 1894

• The temperature on August 23, 1894 was about 12.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1894: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
  • April 21 » Norway formally adopts the Krag–Jørgensen bolt-action rifle as the main arm of its armed forces, a weapon that would remain in service for almost 50 years.
  • June 24 » Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
  • July 22 » The first ever motor race is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen. The fastest finisher was the Comte Jules-Albert de Dion, but the 'official' victory was awarded to Albert Lemaître driving his 3hp petrol engined Peugeot.
  • September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
  • September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Harry Frank Guggenheim, American businessman and publisher, co-founded Newsday († 1971)
• 1891 » Roy Agnew, Australian pianist and composer († 1944)
• 1894 » John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier († 1959)
• 1897 » Henry F. Pringle, American historian and journalist († 1958)
• 1900 » Ernst Krenek, Austrian-American composer and educator († 1991)
• 1900 » Frances Adaskin, Canadian pianist († 2001)