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Birthday December 25, 1890

• The temperature on December 25, 1890 was about -4.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  • September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
  • September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
  • October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
  • November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
  • December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Conrad Hilton, American entrepreneur († 1979)
• 1889 » Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest († 1984)
• 1890 » Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer († 1987)
• 1890 » Robert Ripley, American anthropologist and publisher († 1949)
• 1891 » Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer († 1980)
• 1891 » Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, Indian-English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar († 1959)