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Birthday August 19, 1878

• The temperature on August 19, 1878 was about 17.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Fred Stone, American actor and producer († 1959)
• 1878 » Manuel L. Quezon, Filipino soldier, lawyer, and politician, 2nd President of the Philippines († 1944)
• 1881 » George Enescu, Romanian violinist, pianist, composer, and conductor († 1955)
• 1881 » George Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd († 1954)
• 1883 » Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company († 1971)
• 1883 » José Mendes Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of Portugal († 1965)