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Birthday July 26, 1878

• The temperature on July 26, 1878 was about 17.2 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.

Source: Wikipedia

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