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Birthday August 26, 1876

• The temperature on August 26, 1876 was about 15.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
• Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
• In the year 1876: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
  • February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
  • March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
  • April 11 » The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
  • July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
  • December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Lee de Forest, American engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube († 1961)
• 1874 » Zona Gale, American novelist, short story writer, and playwright († 1938)
• 1875 » John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-Canadian historian and politician, 15th Governor General of Canada († 1940)
• 1880 » Guillaume Apollinaire, Italian-French author, poet, playwright, and critic († 1918)
• 1882 » James Franck, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1964)
• 1882 » Sam Hardy, English footballer († 1966)