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Birthday April 27, 1889

• The temperature on April 27, 1889 was about 16.8 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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.
  • February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
  • November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Warren Wood, American golfer († 1926)
• 1888 » Florence La Badie, Canadian actress († 1917)
• 1891 » Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor († 1953)
• 1893 » Allen Sothoron, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1939)
• 1893 » Draža Mihailović, Serbian general († 1946)
• 1894 » George Petty, American painter and illustrator († 1975)