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Birthday September 28, 1888

• The temperature on September 28, 1888 was about 14.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
  • April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
  • April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
  • May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
  • August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
  • September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.

Source: Wikipedia

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• 1887 » Avery Brundage, American businessman, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee († 1975)
• 1889 » Jack Fournier, American baseball player and coach († 1973)
• 1890 » Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer († 1982)
• 1892 » Elmer Rice, American playwright († 1967)
• 1893 » Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician († 1973)