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Birthday April 30, 1889

• The temperature on April 30, 1889 was about 14.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
  • May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
  • June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
  • August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
  • August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Jaroslav Hašek, Czech soldier and author († 1923)
• 1883 » Luigi Russolo, Italian painter and composer († 1947)
• 1884 » Olof Sandborg, Swedish actor († 1965)
• 1888 » John Crowe Ransom, American poet, critic, and academic († 1974)
• 1893 » Harold Breen, Australian public servant († 1966)
• 1893 » Joachim von Ribbentrop, German soldier and politician, 14th German Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs († 1946)