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Birthday July 5, 1890

• The temperature on July 5, 1890 was about 18.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
  • April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
  • July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
  • October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
  • December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1888 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1963)
• 1888 » Louise Freeland Jenkins, American astronomer and academic († 1970)
• 1889 » Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, and playwright († 1963)
• 1890 » Frederick Lewis Allen, American historian and journalist († 1954)
• 1891 » John Howard Northrop, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1987)
• 1891 » Tin Ujević, Croatian poet and translator († 1955)