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Birthday March 3, 1883

• The temperature on March 3, 1883 was about 1.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
  • May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
  • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
  • October 4 » First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
  • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
  • December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » Florence Auer, American actress and screenwriter († 1962)
• 1880 » Yōsuke Matsuoka, Japanese politician, Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1946)
• 1882 » Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman († 1949)
• 1882 » Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance fighter († 1974)
• 1883 » Cyril Burt, English psychologist and geneticist († 1971)
• 1883 » Paul Marais de Beauchamp, French zoologist († 1977)