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Birthday September 7, 1881

• The temperature on September 7, 1881 was about 17.2 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 1881: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
  • July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1875 » Edward Francis Hutton, American businessman and financier, co-founded E. F. Hutton & Co. († 1962)
• 1876 » C. J. Dennis, Australian poet and author († 1938)
• 1876 » Francesco Buhagiar, Maltese politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malta († 1934)
• 1883 » Theophrastos Sakellaridis, Greek composer and conductor († 1950)
• 1885 » Elinor Wylie, American author and poet († 1928)
• 1887 » Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic († 1964)