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Birthday November 7, 1890

• The temperature on November 7, 1890 was about 5.4 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 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 1890: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
  • April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
  • July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
  • July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
  • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1888 » Nestor Makhno, Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary, founded the Black Army († 1934)
• 1890 » Jan Matulka, Czech-American painter and illustrator († 1972)
• 1891 » Genrikh Yagoda, director of the NKVD († 1938)
• 1893 » Leatrice Joy, American actress († 1985)
• 1893 » Margaret Leech, American historian and author († 1974)