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Birthday July 17, 1881

• The temperature on July 17, 1881 was about 18.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
  • March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Charles Davidson Dunbar, Scottish soldier and bagpipe player († 1939)
• 1871 » Lyonel Feininger, German-American painter and illustrator († 1956)
• 1879 » Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager († 1960)
• 1882 » James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset († 1949)
• 1888 » Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Ukrainian-Israeli novelist, short story writer and poet, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1889 » Erle Stanley Gardner, American lawyer and author († 1970)