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Birthday December 20, 1881

• The temperature on December 20, 1881 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
  • May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
  • June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

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• 1873 » Kan'ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian, author, and academic († 1948)
• 1873 » Mehmet Akif Ersoy, Turkish poet, academic, and politician († 1936)
• 1881 » Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager († 1965)
• 1886 » Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player and businessman († 1974)
• 1888 » Fred Merkle, American baseball player and manager († 1958)
• 1888 » Yitzhak Baer, German-Israeli historian and academic († 1980)