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Birthday March 6, 1884

• The temperature on March 6, 1884 was about 9.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. 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 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
  • December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya († 1980)
• 1882 » Guy Kibbee, American actor and singer († 1956)
• 1884 » Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player († 1959)
• 1885 » Ring Lardner, American journalist and author († 1933)
• 1886 » Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player († 1983)
• 1886 » Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian († 1971)