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Birthday March 1, 1878

• The temperature on March 1, 1878 was about 11.3 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 45 kgf/m² and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
  • September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
  • December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
  • 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 » E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic († 1944)
• 1876 » Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman († 1942)
• 1880 » Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic († 1932)
• 1886 » Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright († 1980)
• 1888 » Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player († 1948)
• 1888 » Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer, outside right († 1949)