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Birthday April 14, 1883

• The temperature on April 14, 1883 was about 10.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 16 » The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.
  • May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
  • August 17 » The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional.
  • August 27 » Eruption of Krakatoa: Four enormous explosions destroy the island of Krakatoa and cause years of climate change.
  • September 8 » The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

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• 1876 » Cecil Chubb, English barrister and one time owner of Stonehenge († 1934)
• 1881 » Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar († 1948)
• 1882 » Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher († 1936)
• 1886 » Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator († 1928)
• 1886 » Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar († 1956)
• 1889 » Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian and academic († 1975)