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Birthday May 2, 1889

• The temperature on May 2, 1889 was about 13.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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.
  • March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
  • April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
  • 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.
  • September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
  • October 24 » Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1886 » Gottfried Benn, German author and poet († 1956)
• 1887 » Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager († 1951)
• 1887 » Vernon Castle, English-American dancer († 1918)
• 1889 » Ki Hajar Dewantara, Indonesian philosopher, academic, and politician († 1959)
• 1890 » E. E. Smith, American engineer and author († 1965)
• 1892 » Manfred von Richthofen, German captain and pilot († 1918)