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Birthday November 25, 1889

• The temperature on November 25, 1889 was about 7.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 94 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
  • September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic and author († 1939)
• 1887 » Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist and geneticist († 1943)
• 1889 » Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright († 1956)
• 1890 » Isaac Rosenberg, English soldier and poet († 1918)
• 1891 » Ōnishiki Uichirō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 26th Yokozuna († 1941)
• 1893 » Joseph Wood Krutch, American author and critic († 1970)