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Birthday May 17, 1881

• The temperature on May 17, 1881 was about 10.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
  • January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
  • February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
  • July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
  • September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
  • December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Dorothy Richardson, English author and journalist († 1957)
• 1873 » Henri Barbusse, French author and journalist († 1935)
• 1874 » George Sheldon, American diver († 1907)
• 1882 » Karl Burman, Estonian architect and painter († 1965)
• 1886 » Alfonso XIII of Spain, Spanish monarch († 1941)
• 1888 » Tich Freeman, English cricketer († 1965)