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Birthday December 5, 1878

• The temperature on December 5, 1878 was about 4.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m² and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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 November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1878: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 4.0 million citizens.
  • January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
  • January 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
  • December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1870 » Vítězslav Novák, Czech composer and educator († 1949)
• 1872 » Harry Nelson Pillsbury, American chess player († 1906)
• 1875 » Arthur Currie, Canadian general († 1933)
• 1879 » Clyde Vernon Cessna, American pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation († 1954)
• 1881 » René Cresté, French actor and director († 1922)
• 1886 » Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and author († 1968)