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Birthday October 8, 1881

• The temperature on October 8, 1881 was about 6.8 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m² and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
  • April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
  • April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
  • May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
  • July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
  • August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
  • November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1877 » Hans Heysen, German-Australian painter († 1968)
• 1879 » Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor († 1956)
• 1882 » Harry McClintock, American singer-songwriter and poet († 1957)
• 1883 » Dick Burnett, American singer-songwriter and guitarist († 1977)
• 1883 » Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1970)
• 1884 » Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal († 1942)