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Birthday November 22, 1883

• The temperature on November 22, 1883 was about 7.9 °C. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 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 1883: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
  • June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
  • August 12 » The last quagga dies at the Natura Artis Magistra, a zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • October 22 » The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
  • November 9 » The 90th Winnipeg Battalion of Rifles, (later the Royal Winnipeg Rifles) of the Canadian Armed Forces is founded.
  • November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

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• 1876 » Percival Proctor Baxter, American lawyer and politician, 53rd Governor of Maine (d.1969)
• 1877 » Endre Ady, Hungarian journalist and poet († 1919)
• 1877 » Joan Gamper, Swiss-Spanish footballer, founded FC Barcelona († 1930)
• 1881 » Enver Pasha, Ottoman general and politician († 1922)
• 1884 » C. J. "Jack" De Garis, Australian entrepreneur († 1926)
• 1884 » Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani historian, author, and scholar († 1953)