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Birthday April 12, 1893

• The temperature on April 12, 1893 was about 5.1 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
  • January 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
  • June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
  • June 13 » Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; the operation was not revealed to the public until 1917, nine years after the president's death.
  • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
  • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Cecil Kimber, English automobile engineer († 1945)
• 1888 » Dan Ahearn, Irish-American long jumper and police officer († 1942)
• 1892 » Henry Darger, American writer and artist († 1973)
• 1894 » Dorothy Cumming, Australian-American actress († 1983)
• 1894 » Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 13th President of Portugal († 1964)
• 1898 » Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress († 1976)