Family tree Zijlmans » Gerrit Antonie Verheijden (1893-????)

Birthday February 2, 1893

• The temperature on February 2, 1893 was about 2.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. 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 1893: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
  • April 1 » The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
  • August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
  • November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
  • November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
  • November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
  • December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1892 » Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna († 1959)
• 1893 » Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist († 1974)
• 1893 » Damdin Sükhbaatar, Mongolian soldier and politician († 1924)
• 1893 » Raoul Riganti, Argentinian race car driver († 1970)
• 1895 » George Halas, American football player and coach († 1983)
• 1895 » Robert Philipp, American painter († 1981)