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Birthday August 22, 1888

• The temperature on August 22, 1888 was about 19.1 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
  • March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
  • 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.
  • August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
  • September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
  • September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
  • September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1887 » Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, German Minister of Foreign Affairs († 1977)
• 1890 » Cecil Kellaway, South African actor († 1973)
• 1891 » Henry Bachtold, Australian soldier and railway engineer († 1983)
• 1891 » Jacques Lipchitz, Lithuanian-Italian sculptor († 1973)
• 1893 » Dorothy Parker, American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist († 1967)
• 1893 » Wilfred Kitching, English 7th General of The Salvation Army († 1977)