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Birthday June 24, 1890

• The temperature on June 24, 1890 was about 18.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
  • March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
  • April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
  • August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
  • September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
  • November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1884 » Frank Waller, American runner († 1941)
• 1885 » Olaf Holtedahl, Norwegian geologist († 1975)
• 1888 » Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect, designed the Rietveld Schröder House († 1964)
• 1893 » Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company († 1971)
• 1895 » Jack Dempsey, American boxer and soldier († 1983)