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Birthday June 29, 1878

• The temperature on June 29, 1878 was about 18.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
  • July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.

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• 1879 » Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian cardinal († 1970)
• 1880 » Ludwig Beck, German general († 1944)
• 1881 » Curt Sachs, German-American composer and musicologist († 1959)
• 1881 » Harry Frazee, American director, producer, and agent († 1929)
• 1882 » Franz Seldte, German captain and politician, Reich Minister for Labour († 1947)
• 1882 » Henry Hawtrey, English runner († 1961)