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Birthday January 25, 1882

• The temperature on January 25, 1882 was about -1.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 1882: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 24 » Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
  • July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
  • August 20 » Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
  • September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
  • September 5 » The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1874 » W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer († 1965)
• 1878 » Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer († 1975)
• 1882 » Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, and critic († 1941)
• 1885 » Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author († 1942)
• 1886 » Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor and composer († 1954)
• 1895 » Florence Mills, American singer, dancer, and actress († 1927)