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Birthday April 12, 1888

• The temperature on April 12, 1888 was about 4.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 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 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.
  • March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
  • 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.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
  • September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1884 » Otto Meyerhof, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1951)
• 1884 » Tenby Davies, Welsh runner († 1932)
• 1885 » Robert Delaunay, French painter († 1941)
• 1887 » Harold Lockwood, American actor and director († 1918)
• 1888 » Cecil Kimber, English automobile engineer († 1945)
• 1888 » Dan Ahearn, Irish-American long jumper and police officer († 1942)