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Birthday September 23, 1887

• The temperature on September 23, 1887 was about 16.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 year 1887: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
  • April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
  • May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
  • June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
  • July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
  • October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1880 » John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish biologist, physician, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1971)
• 1889 » Walter Lippmann, American journalist and publisher, co-founded The New Republic († 1974)
• 1890 » Friedrich Paulus, German general († 1957)
• 1895 » Johnny Mokan, American baseball player († 1985)
• 1895 » Miron Merzhanov, Russian architect and engineer († 1975)
• 1897 » Paul Delvaux, Belgian painter († 1994)