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Birthday October 9, 1889

• The temperature on October 9, 1889 was about 9.4 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 38 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
  • November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
  • November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Rube Marquard, American baseball player and manager († 1980)
• 1888 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter († 1959)
• 1888 » Nikolai Bukharin, Russian journalist and politician († 1938)
• 1890 » Aimee Semple McPherson, Canadian-American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel († 1944)
• 1892 » Ivo Andrić, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1975)
• 1893 » Mário de Andrade, Brazilian author, poet, and photographer († 1945)