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Birthday November 1, 1881

• The temperature on November 1, 1881 was about -1.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
  • April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1878 » Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentinian academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1959)
• 1878 » Konrad Mägi, Estonian painter and educator († 1925)
• 1880 » Alfred Wegener, German meteorologist and geophysicist († 1930)
• 1880 » Grantland Rice, American journalist and poet († 1954)
• 1880 » Sholem Asch, Polish-American author and playwright († 1957)
• 1881 » Perikles Ioannidis, Greek admiral († 1965)