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Birthday December 8, 1893

• The temperature on December 8, 1893 was about 3.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 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 28 » The USSIndiana, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time, is launched.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
  • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
  • August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
  • 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

• 1890 » Bohuslav Martinů, Czech-American pianist and composer († 1959)
• 1892 » Marcus Lee Hansen, American historian, author, and academic († 1938)
• 1894 » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye († 1938)
• 1894 » James Thurber, American humorist and cartoonist († 1961)
• 1899 » Arthur Leslie, English-Welsh actor and playwright († 1970)
• 1899 » John Qualen, Canadian-American actor († 1987)