April 1893 in History

Events in History

Apr 22 Paul Kruger elected President of Transvaal for 3rd time

Apr 26 1st Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
Apr 27 Richard "King Dick" Seddon succeeds John Balance as premier of New Zealand and leader of Liberal Party

Apr 3 Princess Maud of Fife, Countess of Southesk, born in East Sheen Lodge, Richmond-upon-Thames (d. 1945)
Apr 4 Hans Riegel Sr., German sweet inventor (founder of Haribo), born in Bonn, Germany (d. 1945)

Apr 7 American Central Intelligence Agency director (1953-1961), born in Watertown, New York

Apr 8 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), born in Molenbeek-St-Jean, Belgium (d. 1971)
Apr 11 Dean Acheson, American statesman and U.S. Secretary of State (1949-53), born in Middletown, Connecticut (d. 1971)
Apr 11 Johannes Theodoor Thijsse, Dutch director of Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, born in Amsterdam (d. 1984)
Apr 20 Edna Parker, American supercentenarian, the oldest person in the world following the death of Yone Minagawa of Japan on August 13, 2007, born in Morgan County, Indiana (d. 2008)
Apr 20 Hermann Ungar, Moravian writer, born in Boskovice (d. 1929)
Apr 20 Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor, born in Barcelona (d. 1983)
Apr 23 Frank Borzage, American director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1962)

Apr 27 Serbian WWII hero and war criminal, born in Ivanjica, Serbia

Apr 27 Norman Bel Geddes, American theatrical designer (Rivals, Dead End), born in Adrian, Michigan (d. 1958)
Apr 29 Elisaveta Bagriana, Bulgarian poet (The Eternal and the Holy), born in Sofia, Bulgaria (d. 1991)
Apr 29 Harold Urey, American physical chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934), born in Walkerton, Indiana (d. 1981)

Apr 30 Nazi foreign minister and war criminal, born in Wesel, Rhine Province, German Empire

Apr 4 Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, French-Swiss botanist, dies at 86
Apr 19 John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer (Probs in Greek Ethics), dies at 52
Apr 22 Chaim Aronson, Lithuanian inventor & academic, dies at 67