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Birthday May 27, 1893

• The temperature on May 27, 1893 was about 12.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • February 1 » Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
  • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
  • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
  • September 19 » In New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor, giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.
  • November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1891 » Claude Champagne, Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer († 1965)
• 1891 » Jaan Kärner, Estonian poet and author († 1958)
• 1894 » Dashiell Hammett, American detective novelist and screenwriter († 1961)
• 1894 » Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author († 1961)
• 1895 » Douglas Lloyd Campbell, Canadian educator and politician, 13th Premier of Manitoba († 1995)
• 1897 » John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1967)