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Birthday May 6, 1889

• The temperature on May 6, 1889 was about 23.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 45%. 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.
  • May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
  • May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
  • June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
  • 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 » Alberto Collo, Italian actor († 1955)
• 1895 » Fidél Pálffy, Hungarian soldier and politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture († 1946)
• 1895 » Júlio César de Mello e Souza, Brazilian mathematician and author († 1974)
• 1895 » Rudolph Valentino, Italian actor († 1926)
• 1896 » Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Swedish physicist and academic († 1966)
• 1897 » Paul Alverdes, German author and poet († 1979)