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Birthday September 9, 1892

• The temperature on September 9, 1892 was about 12.2 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. 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 year 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
  • April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
  • June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
  • June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
  • June 11 » The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
  • December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Alf Landon, American lieutenant, banker, and politician, 26th Governor of Kansas († 1987)
• 1890 » Colonel Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC († 1980)
• 1894 » Arthur Freed, American composer and producer († 1973)
• 1894 » Bert Oldfield, Australian cricketer and soldier († 1976)
• 1894 » Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian trade union leader and politician, 14th Canadian Minister of Labour († 1950)
• 1898 » Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager († 1973)