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Birthday January 3, 1889

• The temperature on January 3, 1889 was about -3.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
  • February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
  • September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
  • November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Raoul Koczalski, Polish pianist and composer († 1948)
• 1885 » Harry Elkins Widener, American businessman († 1912)
• 1886 » Arthur Mailey, Australian cricketer († 1967)
• 1886 » John Gould Fletcher, American poet and author († 1950)
• 1887 » August Macke, German-French painter († 1914)
• 1892 » J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and philologist († 1973)