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Birthday February 16, 1893

• The temperature on February 16, 1893 was about 5.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
  • June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
  • October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
  • 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.
  • 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

• 1886 » Andy Ducat, English international footballer (forward and manager) and Cricketer († 1942)
• 1887 » Kathleen Clifford, American actress († 1962)
• 1891 » Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist and academic († 1968)
• 1893 » Katharine Cornell, American actress and producer († 1974)
• 1896 » Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian († 2010)
• 1901 » Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor († 1985)