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Birthday July 6, 1884

• The temperature on July 6, 1884 was about 23.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In the year 1884: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
  • March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
  • March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
  • June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
  • July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
  • October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1883 » Godfrey Huggins, Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland († 1971)
• 1884 » Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, American businessman and sailor († 1970)
• 1885 » Ernst Busch, German field marshal († 1945)
• 1886 » Marc Bloch, French historian and academic († 1944)
• 1887 » Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress († 1975)
• 1887 » Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet († 1985)