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Birthday February 13, 1881

• The temperature on February 13, 1881 was about -2.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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.
  • February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
  • June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
  • July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
  • November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

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• 1879 » Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist († 1949)
• 1880 » Dimitrie Gusti, Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and philosopher († 1955)
• 1881 » Eleanor Farjeon, Jewish-English author, poet, and playwright († 1965)
• 1883 » Hal Chase, American baseball player and manager († 1947)
• 1883 » Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Russian-Armenian actor and director († 1922)
• 1884 » Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American pole vaulter and businessman, founded the A. C. Gilbert Company († 1961)