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Birthday November 1, 1889

• The temperature on November 1, 1889 was about 7.9 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1889: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
  • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
  • May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
  • May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
  • June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Hermann Broch, Austrian-American author and poet († 1951)
• 1887 » L.S. Lowry, English painter and illustrator († 1976)
• 1888 » George Kenner, German-American painter and illustrator († 1971)
• 1888 » Michał Sopoćko, Polish cleric and academic († 1975)
• 1889 » Hannah Höch, German painter and photographer († 1978)
• 1889 » Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, Nobel Prize laureate († 1982)