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Birthday January 10, 1880

• The temperature on January 10, 1880 was about 2.0 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 1880: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
  • May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
  • June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
  • June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
  • June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
  • August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » Issai Schur, German mathematician and academic († 1941)
• 1877 » Frederick Gardner Cottrell, American physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist († 1948)
• 1878 » John McLean, American hurdler, football player, and coach († 1955)
• 1880 » Manuel Azaña, Spanish jurist and politician, 7th President of Spain († 1940)
• 1883 » Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Russian journalist, author, and poet († 1945)
• 1883 » Francis X. Bushman, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 1966)