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Birthday July 5, 1889

• The temperature on July 5, 1889 was about 23.2 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
  • February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
  • March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
  • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1963)
• 1888 » Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic († 1970)
• 1889 » Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright († 1963)
• 1890 » Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist († 1954)
• 1891 » John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1891 » Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator († 1955)