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Birthday October 22, 1882

• The temperature on October 22, 1882 was about 11.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 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 August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1882: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
  • June 6 » The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
  • June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
  • July 11 » The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
  • July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
  • September 5 » Tottenham Hotspur, a Premier League football club from North London, is founded (as Hotspur F.C.).

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Jaan Lattik, Estonian pastor and politician, 9th Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1967)
• 1881 » Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1958)
• 1881 » Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz, German geophysicist and seismologist († 1908)
• 1882 » Edmund Dulac, French-English illustrator († 1953)
• 1882 » N. C. Wyeth, American painter and illustrator († 1945)
• 1885 » Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor and actor († 1969)