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Birthday July 1, 1888

• The temperature on July 1, 1888 was about 12.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-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 April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1888: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
  • May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
  • August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
  • September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
  • October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1882 » Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of West Bengal († 1962)
• 1883 » Arthur Borton, English colonel, Victoria Cross recipient († 1933)
• 1885 » Dorothea Mackellar, Australian author and poet († 1968)
• 1887 » Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and scholar († 1981)
• 1892 » James M. Cain, American author and journalist († 1977)
• 1892 » László Lajtha, Hungarian composer and conductor († 1963)