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Birthday January 1, 1888

• The temperature on January 1, 1888 was about -10 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
  • July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
  • October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
  • October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral († 1945)
• 1888 » Georgios Stanotas, Greek general († 1965)
• 1888 » John Garand, Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle († 1974)
• 1889 » Charles Bickford, American actor († 1967)
• 1890 » Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer and academic († 1966)
• 1891 » Sampurnanand, Indian educator and politician, 3rd Governor of Rajasthan († 1969)