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Birthday November 15, 1878

• The temperature on November 15, 1878 was about 3.4 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m² and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 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.
  • February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
  • February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
  • March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
  • June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1873 » Sara Josephine Baker, American physician and academic († 1945)
• 1874 » August Krogh, Danish zoologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate († 1949)
• 1874 » Dimitrios Golemis, Greek runner († 1941)
• 1879 » Lewis Stone, American actor († 1953)
• 1881 » Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist and author († 1960)
• 1882 » Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist († 1965)