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Birthday March 27, 1882

• The temperature on March 27, 1882 was about 6.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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 1882: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
  • March 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
  • April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
  • June 6 » The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
  • June 30 » Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
  • July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
  • August 20 » Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1879 » Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager († 1929)
• 1879 » Sándor Garbai, Hungarian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Hungary († 1947)
• 1881 » Arkady Averchenko, Russian playwright and satirist († 1925)
• 1882 » Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist († 1965)
• 1883 » Marie Under, Estonian author and poet († 1980)
• 1884 » Gordon Thomson, English rower and lieutenant († 1953)