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Birthday July 5, 1893

• The temperature on July 5, 1893 was about 24.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 40%. 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 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • July 11 » A revolution led by the liberal general and politician José Santos Zelaya takes over state power in Nicaragua.
  • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
  • August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
  • October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1890 » Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist († 1954)
• 1891 » John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1891 » Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator († 1955)
• 1893 » Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer († 1971)
• 1893 » Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter († 1976)
• 1894 » Ants Lauter, Estonian actor and director († 1973)