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Birthday October 19, 1878

• The temperature on October 19, 1878 was about 11.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • 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 » Bart King, American cricketer († 1965)
• 1873 » Jaap Eden, Dutch speed skater and cyclist († 1925)
• 1876 » Mihkel Pung, Estonian lawyer and politician, 11th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1941)
• 1876 » Mordecai Brown, American baseball player, coach, and manager († 1945)
• 1879 » Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist († 1919)
• 1882 » Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor († 1916)