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Birthday November 1, 1893

• The temperature on November 1, 1893 was about 1.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • January 17 » Lorrin A. Thurston, along with the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety, led the Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani.
  • May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • July 22 » Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" after admiring the view from the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • 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.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator († 1971)
• 1888 » Michał Sopoćko, Polish cleric and academic († 1975)
• 1889 » Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer († 1978)
• 1889 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)
• 1896 » Edmund Blunden, English author, poet, and critic († 1974)
• 1898 » Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver († 1960)