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Birthday February 26, 1892

• The temperature on February 26, 1892 was about 2.6 °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 1892: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
  • July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
  • September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
  • October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
  • November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach († 1950)
• 1887 » Stefan Grabiński, Polish author and educator († 1936)
• 1887 » William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian († 1966)
• 1893 » Dorothy Whipple, English novelist († 1966)
• 1893 » Wallace Fard Muhammad, American religious leader, founded the Nation of Islam (disappeared 1934)
• 1896 » Andrei Zhdanov, Ukrainian-Russian civil servant and politician († 1948)